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Your anonymous blog

Your anonymous blog To my face you are kindness itself: cheerful, always upbeat, but in your anonymous blog you rip me apart. You press your thumb and forefinger on each side, hold, pull and rend, and...

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there’s no drought about it

there’s no drought about it the fountain shouts with an overwhelming bout of color-lit water in a passionate fit of fashion it pours out its inner most need neither avarice nor greed simply the seed of...

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Trade

Trade It’s a fair trade. Food for fuel. Convert all our corn. Add the amylase enzyme gene. Food for fuel. It’s a fair trade. Forests for Food. Switch soya for corn. Make Brazil a giant farm. Forests...

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forgery sorcery

forgery sorcery The goal to cajole grains of glimmering gold from metallically murky, stir-fried mercury through nucleosynthesis control is now achieved, yet not well received by those with untold...

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Can’t Hide

Can’t Hide With the last paycheck spent on camouflage, focusing on a mindset made of mirrors, I attempt to be an object or better yet be none. My clothes mimic the variegated prints of nature, my face...

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carried away

carried away   i now cannot say that this is not what i cannot say i keep quiet carefully counting out the contrast of continuous quietness. – Zumwalt  (06/1991)

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The Sassoon Collection: i. Everyone sang while I fell asleep

The Sassoon Collection i. Everyone sang while I fell asleep voices wailing around the house thud of feet and slam of doors everyone singing only the clocks wind down around this small room no sense of...

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The Sassoon Collection: ix. Fight to our Finish

The Sassoon Collection ix. Fight to our Finish The bums came back.  Pundits played and bites were flying. The yearning journalists threshed the backlit words To trash the warring brutes who’d refrained...

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The Sassoon Collection: v. Auto Tunes

The Sassoon Collection v. Auto Tunes I keep such music in my car No din this side of death can quell; Deep bass booming over tar, And excess forged in death-metal hell. My dreaming demons will not hear...

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The Sassoon Collection: ii. A pickle and a black hole

The Sassoon Collection ii. A pickle and a black hole Mass and form had the pickle, sweet, sour, tall and straight; The round black hole collapsing still further then it knew Made its longest shadow...

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On an afternoon

On an afternoon On a breezy summer afternoon two universes, once far apart, approached each other and drawn by forces not easily understood, collided and created the beginnings of a universe with...

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The Sassoon Collection: vii. The Manager

The Sassoon Collection vii. The Manager ‘Good-morning; good-morning!’ the well-rested manager said When we worked through the night to finish on time the urgent assignment he failed to review and...

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The Sassoon Collection: x. Particle Show

The Sassoon Collection x. Particle Show AND still they come and go: and this is all I know— That from the mind I watch an endless particle-show, Where wild and listless forces flicker on their way,...

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The Sassoon Collection

The Sassoon Collection i. Everyone sang while I fell asleep voices wailing around the house thud of feet and slam of doors everyone singing only the clocks wind down around this small room no sense of...

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Bull Market

Bull Market The gardeners have hit the pavement, Bulldozed by smiling engineers Optimists—peddling bromides. Take your pick:         Withdraw your last fiver         For a philosophic Wheel-O; or,...

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Silver Alert

                                             Silver Alert Steel ballerina Under golden dome On ornate, jewelled throne Sur le cou-de-pied pirouette Arythmically composing frozen, forlorn silhouettes...

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call center conversations

call center conversations reciting written scripts chattering cattle, chewing and spieling windward whirling, wheeling and dealing nouns, adjectives, action verbs headers, disclaimers, inertia verbs in...

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Punctured Porcupine

Punctured Porcupine Banished from Amami Oshima Along with the pit viper and mongoose Unclear on underlying circumstances and unspoken utterances Tentatively testing the brackish toasty waters Toe after...

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