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or break it                         How do you go about writing a life
       it                         or living a life you don't want
 vote for                            thrust your pelvis into the air.
 efficiency of writing         writing devolves the more tired you get.

Negro totem place a marker            We're ready for the bonbons.
phallic image fop it to the margin    Change the world as you change
buttressed in its casing just as      the subject.
sausage lives with a rice queen
XYZ with your faggots                 Emma             You've lost some
"I need a valium."                    couldn't         weight, porkchop.
                                   care             Hat period.
Olympia Dukakis' tongue               less             Feed me a cheese
                                                    burger.
sub  iecto  TV antennae          let's have sex again
(from) under to come up                   call my bluff
         Bing                         or coral reef
         Crosby                       a lot somewhere
                                          is empty

I'll go get your poop.                  When did you finally decide to
Fresh-squeezed orange juice             give in?  Symmetry is nature
& the chance to win millions            's allusion.  Lift it up
Make a fly trap                      & tilt it.
hang it on the wall                  Shift your stance & you'll see.
What are you doing in this city             Pensive, naked, indulging
with its colorful edifice pitched        the average baby weighs six
against a sky as obdurate as a               pounds eight ounces.
walrus defending its pups?                African princess.
Yes that was a question.                  I'm a waiter.
Sell a vitamin                        Wear a wineglass, spread it open.
make it look like something else.
 I have to go.

Sanka or french press.               
I may be pregnant.
I know.
Double breasted jacket                  It's a waste of time.
warmer in southern tropes                 Irrevocably irreparable
Capricorn speedo assailant                or something comparable.
Name the nature of composition
 Back pocket
 there is the note I left you.  

It as it

A poem (to) (that) walks
  on water
It as it
relates to sight, sound
makes a felt as object
   but then switches.
The guide is not philosophy
  It's time to begin thinking
   about your retirement plan.
This book is running out
  of pages.
    Make is left or right.
It's as if it's as now or later,
   as it's a little dream
   a little smaller
   it's complicated
Increased complexity in a system
need not necessitate increased complexity.
   Sentence as 
(somewhere)
          forward
The poet worries about its size
but it's of average length.  

Attendant to each
thought is thought
This is nothing 
new as it is
under the sun.
Attached so deeply 
to the image.
Enact daily rituals.
My hand.  Put in a bit
of physical labor.

   Use your magic wand to
walk along a grid, pud-
dles, treetops
   sore muscles
 all this in one day, move
forward & backward, or

Up & down, flight of 
  stairs is an odd
      expression.
      expressive
selves, too.  Do
you want paper or plastic?

In Progress

                                                         An infinite logic
                                                         undiluted by form
                                                         a bit of a question left
                                                         on parched lips
From city dweller to countryman
                            a thousand bells
                                       tolling       bits of memory
                                       a unique presence     schemata
To make something is to give over
                                                     left with a bit of
                                                             a question

This is instinct
   listen to the rain    outside
   or else your face split 
   apart entirely.  
Asking why is your order
 granted in the midst of this chaos.  
                                         (as a 
                         border under pressure of doubt, as a border in question)
Then suddenly middle-aged
   from end to end
     veins spread thin to be so enamored
If I think        views
                                          It's never where I
                                          'd like it to be
It's hard to conceive of this 
in English     borrowing from myself
the sentence setsup  dynamics of power
        by necessity
        thirst   hunger
                                          Into that disordered
                                          field,    a word alone
                                          is every word or
                                          something similarly situated
This is insistent
        a promise?
        a negotiable suture.

or otherwise

Boxes within boxes
be that as it may
if it's it's me
then a mystical
figure or a
virtue you
've got to be
kidding me.

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Public, all previous
that would prohibit historic
individuals, marking
opportunities for health
& opportunities.

I'm very pleased to
make a difference
during or expression as
the event.

Testimony, a quiet
a rival was teeming,
seeking, pleaded
now in the hands
of
the only witness.

These things could be a lot worse.
Or the proposal that language
has upset opponents
who think much more than 
mere consideration in other matters
once used to affect.
   If to recollect
   to mean to put
   things in a place.

Remnant

      Thinking is the thought of what is or is thinking or just thinking, 
or make it through.  The words are tied up, in syntax to make it more 
 or less complicated like a vine that hangs
 from nowhere lowered like a 
  parentheses to shunt off the cold or keep in a secret, make a too many 
things to say

  so separate, but be discrete about it.
          Hardy har har.  
   He runs as though he
  means it.  All these scattered
   lines like
        such as rotting strawberries
    or the sky
          threatening to
        burst open.  All color.
    The milk separates the
             cinnamon, sugar
         spiral in a bowl.
      During or because
          of the event, it’s all the same.
  Terrified of linearity.  We thank you for your patience.
  Breaking with tradition was never easy for anyone because of its sheer 
volume, or the way it always seemed to trace back or retract      form 
repeat as it focuses the question more on specificity than a variable 
or exterior.   Antecedents are yarrow sticks as well.  
 Should we be concerned with
    the way punctuation
    meanders but not
 here only here and not here as though
 one could see it in the mind.
  Suffer from.  Both
 hands subjected to the same
  Fate.  Because tomorrow
 we see what you’re
     made of.  

Somewhere Around

Made forcefully
   the same across the nation.
affect this determination
   based last week on “further       remaining statutory
a violation of language
   historically disfavored  “similarly situated”
 “equally suspect
   with his “gut” against
      a
 strategic move.
   “this is an issue that is intensely
personal, with strongly held beliefs and
convictions on both sides.  But I am 
charged
   “The outcome was not unexpected.
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  a crossing guard   in the  furnishing
more than 10 years, faces numerous
    The judge’s origin
 the result of the public
outcry,  “calm
reflection”
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   sneakers & clothing
 underestimating gravity
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 possessing the corruption
     of minors
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who did not identify, however, 
said
     it somewhat important & about
     not at all important
also may not have a universal meaning,
   has gained momentum as the
demographics
 is almost ingrained,”
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so sensationalized because people were grasping
    for an explanation
    how the individuals identify, and 
that speculating
    subjective
   ,” she said.  “I think
 wasting time
reflects men who are always
           just
mean the desire for privacy or
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 a media promotion weighing the creation
of spaces
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with the goal of driving home
    “He’s shocked.  His feelings are hurt
      deeply.  He feels betrayed.”
    “Such hate crimes are in desperate need of
      of a federal response.
    “Each year,   first-hand
      testimonials
remove the existing requirement
   during the offense
 “enunciate clearly
    any American will no 
  longer be tolerated
“madefun” of him because he is
      gay and his hair is gray, 
has affiliates around
  the globe, women;
     has allocated more
initiatives since its 1982 inception.
   “There are many health
disparities, coping with life—
   threatening  & in our
communication with
   it became redoubled
its efforts apparent
    and,
  has seen an increase
in these populations “It just
   seemed a natural
   type of program for us
a full week’s worth of
   meals every week
“We’re trying to raise awareness 
  about the impact and risk of
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    It was just the animals 
coming out of hibernation, just
  as we all are.
kind of put underneath the rug &
   nothing happened.
countless firsts.
    experience the multitude of ‘I
offerings want to find a way
   to get the community more involved
 in the zoo,’"
The zoo’s been phenomenally
responsive, flexible and attentive.
    The plants are all in bloom & 
 You heart the world.

some people are still pinching themselves
   “a non-existent
problem.”   was
bogged down in the bog.
    a light at the end of the tunnel is a light, no
matter how faint.
 Ideas suitable for flushing.
 That’s right: Texas should be next.
                      A
 new broom sweeps mean.
                      Yes,
he was no longer privy to what went
on.  He wanted to install a robotic toilet
near the gay beach at a deterrent.  
    Robo-john as robo-cop.  
Tell us what you think.  
    I don’t have to tell you
that a certain substance hit the fan.
    At the height of the flap,
truth swirls right down the drain.
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A funny story I haven’t told before:
   “It has no appeal to
    me.  I’m old-fashioned
    when it comes to
    dating.  Friendship has
    to happen before I get
    involved with someone
    romantically.  And I 
    don’t find my friends
    on the Internet.  But I’m
    not being judgmental.
     To each his own.”

the quoted phrase a requirement
for an equal protection violation
  “righteous anger
  coupled with effective action.”  
claim
   In the opinion, the justices
also postured
   exhaustive,     well-thought-out.
“All of us have made
   our voices heard
 we may be able to live
our happily-ever-after sooner than
 we think.”
 An area of main concern is rectal
bleeding.

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“Puppies” is a derogatory
 local word
agents of immorality are
busy using all lies and deceptions
    to hurt our society.

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   City to market
complimentary food and
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will be on hand.
   Restrictions and limitations apply.  

the DAY unfolds
   like a challenging road that
raises the essential question:

    Can we talk?

he’s interested in the complexities
                I had a big life
shift.
     “Normally it is either
                          I’ve
done a lot of tortured souls
                 a departure
from the roles he normally takes,
         I’ve enjoyed that kind of
moral ambivalence.
                      His use
  of language             is 
  expulsive.
People say what they mean.
There’s not a stray word.
 ‘a lean fist of a play.’ 
   It’s exactly
what it is.
    It’ll be interesting to see
what shape it takes.
It’s a whole different kind of math
to do that.  They’re two different
planets.
     “It’s like two sides of the same
thing,” he said.  “It’s like a 
different language and terms.  My
job is to bring emotional honesty
                  to whatever the writing
                  offers up.

political awakening, a chance encounter
     Follow what happens
    by necessity and by choice
                                   escapist theme
lives that
  intertwine on
  occasion.  It
  makes sense

Excitement for the event
  has been building
for weeks
  the line between life
and work begins to disappear

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and let the program do the rest.
        you locate the 
hottest spots once the sun goes
down.

 the revolutionary aspects
--and there are many—have 
allowed it to succeed in the 
oversaturated cell phone market.

 Do you collect anything?
 Pigs; I’m really fond of pigs.
          I remember she once
said, “I feel as if you are lay-
ing on a train track and a train
is coming and you’re not tied
down, you’re perfectly free to 
get up and move and you’re not
doing it.” 
  who’s going to?

   It was a very
warm, very friendly place and
I enjoyed it tremendously, but
I was in the process of sort-
ing out who I was at the time.
I lived two lives and they were
both good.

  there is something
--something that goes into the 
universe.

  the image of
God.  I believe we can get there.
Paradigms do shift.
  There  are
  considerable tensions
crazy plot logic
Inspiring sight through the glory of sound
 --recognize as
love.
  describes/
reenacts.
 “They’re  two completely
different, self-contained
    it really required an 
 adjustment of mindset, sometime
almost instantaneously 
    ‘Tell,’ and thought
They’re both concerned with how