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you pretty much caught me

pouring water in milk

that’s like making curtains

out of old negligees folks have not suffered

same with music

when they sang for god

wicked and wonder fill fee

lot to be said for being scared as hell

chin up and

down in a good hole

that aspen crown for a month

in winter with your stethoscope

on a sleeping bear and tell me

that the earth does not go

mighty slow in stretching of midge

into eagle eating crow

i heard a mature eagle tried to take a fawn

the fawn did get up off the ground

a little but it was a no go

because the wings were stupid about fawn

and then the flies troubled

those two fishy talon wounds

for five days by my lights

and i am the only one

on earth with broken booze glass

for eyes the closer to water

the more the numberless bitin buzzes

it’s yours i won’t air colored

garden hose stretching between

up there and this little lost rambler

oh guess it's downhill all

post partial kill sky

knee guess it's knees then nape

in creek with a hey with a croupy wire hanger

of flies all popcorning down

like deer were bouncy wire hanger

we stretched into a basketball hoop

and shut the door and loved

that trim and door

would hold it up there children

maybe expect some fairly crazy things

and rolled dirty socks and dunked

the tastes for running

soon gained weight my one

and only hands

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any place you stood in clear

a boat sailed the ocean

on the timber from there

and so a view another way of saying a boat

and lonely people peeping

through skinned glint sea

with the bad bread black teeth

the people of bread jawing bread so they

chewed themselves quiet up

so a see going meant a sea going

see mint sea inn endland

was only in the unglassed woods

that leaden footedness trucked with wings

distance's magics consumed

great fat toads name of root and stagger ray

the captain he said he could take the wrinkle

off the ocean if he pulled a string

through one nostril out the other

that would do it

rake the wrinkle right off the ocean

one infinite harsh eye pane

day they switched up tooths for seers

yes he knew that one thing like a call

the viburnum the handful of soil

all the way through himself like sugar

through cake

all you can ask of anybody

convict and crate and cranes the cop

in there that way but don't see him so

he stows fine to a new land

has him a new name

rhymes with fin subsumed in rain

we sleep sleep

re-wets our eyes for

meteor care of crater

yes effin sir

not everything shoulder

wearying chop and

chipping dig

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young love is a knee blood

for beauty and its exquisite hesitancies

stat rash can't believe

the loved makes waste

in the can first i know of you

annul a knoll those quiet waters

only jesus could icefish in summer

event lists lisp in fire

i felt bad for the fire could not talk right

stone went off like a shot

they worked on my teeth with pig fat all night

i could breathe out a farm

but i could not hire the labor

they call 'em dirt farmers because

that's their tooth on back that ant

event ants carry only resized moon

shield herald of

turn it it says good night

you dapper rascal you

now don't ya ever flue flu flu

bird ohh to hear young love

making water in the bathroom

bout three hour fore dawn all the world's a library

don all the cold people are tiny needles and

every cloud's shoulder's your grandmother the librarian

mmm some shy thread piercer

rebinds soft porns to spines

under the coverlets of the holy books

neither sheer nor shrill it's all just

big tits shower scenes it's

every s save one in

house for snake spaghetti-ing over highway

hurry-rah that's oop that fine name

for the rattler we trained

to mou(s)e wall(s) (s)topped

having heart(s) again

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37 by now keats Williams

charley patton are really

very dead maybe i’ve paid

in funeral two dollar bills

enough for my words to say

something grand of myself

but trailing off in volume at the end

to paddle myself live

live rich of eye and hand on the second growth ivy

shade of a passing hawk it's like a stage beard

on a cable pulled

across the planked ground it's like coffee

actually jumps if you stare it at right

that mine is goldless oh

show slow beard pen wool pencil filings firings well

nighttime well

one frog sings in clear

mood ring redder greener together

however the day goes

hits that cool of a searcher at and as

the wing and the wind and body crest

good dark touch'll just judge jug

hello higher bellow weather

clean breeze cleaning service sir vice sire

or teleprompt orgasm ash

ain’t just for guns anymore o all over

my why all this my

our our now naturalized skin