- Cacoethes
- The Sherry Gland
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- 1 An
orchestra is guaranteed for the assassination
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- The
stream tried to get drunk upon its trout
- Tried
to go to the plaza by way of the trout factory,
- Tried
to be calm as a trout leaning against a bicycle,
- but
there was a fire on the train, so he couldn’t.
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- The
moon continued trying to warm to the subject at hand
- “An
extremely ugly blind girl in a veil,”
- but
the veil was really a whip, so he couldn’t.
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- A
long, waxy avenue with cherubs sticking out.
- God
smoking a bone pipe in a high-backed chair
- trying
to read Ben-Hur by the light of his fever.
- The
involuntary mirror adrift in the smell of lilies.
- The
small, curved wolves of the roaring water
- surrounded
by tiny yet disagreeable horses
- looking
out from windows
- upon
the aging goldfish with bronchitis.
- “Welcome
to Mandalay!”
- embroidered
upon a seine net.
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- 2 the
rain’s current condition is classified
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- You’ll
find a hyena seated at the head of the table.
- Send
a postcard with its picture
- if
you could
- If
you could
- inscribe
a hammer with a thousand tiny apologies
- and
make a rabbit for the hyena to wed
- out
of a bed of mushrooms
- painted
white and standing erect
- the
second-best bed
- like
two hands in a jar of black cypresses
- reaching
for a derby and a sword
- if
you could.
- If
you could
- give
the infant a cigarette.
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- 3
evening conversation / a limpet on a rock
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- Very
thin, the pheasant was moving
- white
stones next to a dark man.
- Nothing
personal, but a slight bitterness
- ending
in a pair of red bedroom slippers
- covered
in an perturbation of pale blue birds
- until
it looked like a wooden radio
- coming
up the drive.
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- 4
from the wooden radio (but please just go)
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- Chirrucurrarrachirracucucu
- is
a format of diversion
- step
away step away
- from
the wooden radio,
- please.
- Go
back full or go back empty.
- It
is most like an auburn dinghy the Mister
- shall
have painted green
- for
the festival.
- The
daughter shall admire its yaw.
- Mother
exhibits her complex.
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- Chirrucurrarrachirracucucu!
- So
why kid a kidder, my wicked Waikiki?
- Freedom
is game
- step
away step away
- from
the wooden radio,
- please.
- Go
back full or go back empty.
- Children
are a threat to celebration the Mister
- shall
have painted green
- for
the festival.
- The
daughter shall alphabetize the dirt.
- Mother
desires a kitchen window.
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- And
yet
- we
have nothing
- to
do with it
- I
am told.
- I
am told a lot.
-
- Chirrucurrarrachirracucucu
- is
a format of diversion
- step
away step away
- from
the wooden radio,
- please.
- Go
back full or go back empty.
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- 5 recollection
of a small apartment
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- The
memory curves or splits,
- the
garden freezes its trout,
- and
a passing warmth
- assembles
its leaves
- into
a workbench
- beneath
a bee.
- The
tripling of the hives
- westward,
beyond
- the
three old stills. Meaning
- matters
most
- to
meaninglessness—
- a
refresher course
- (held
outdoors each Saturday)
- on
the sad fate of vines,
- blackened
with trout.
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RE-MOBILIZATION