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This next new poem
or fairly recent poem

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is called "Life Show."

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"They invade the avenues where
I have strewn footprints.

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They lie in wait behind
abandoned kiosks.

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They offer me mantras
from the Book of the Dead.

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They choreograph strange
dances inside my retina.

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They sewed plastic botanies
under my fingernails.

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They walk in the sky
on legs of ataxia.

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What is this music?

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It's pronged like a pulse
of dust in my wrist.

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Now I see them.

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They cluster beneath the
awnings of mysterious cafes.

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Their dreams are of
lions and lignite.

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Like silkworms, they
wrapped me in cocoons

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of luminescence these secret
spinners who plot surgery

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on my tired veins of fall."

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