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This second piece
is a small section

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of a larger poem called "A
Book of The Robin and The Bird"

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or "Chick Embryo Development."

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And yes, there are
times when poets begin

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to document their own lives.

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Fiction meets non-fiction.

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And this is a little
bit of that for me.

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This is the second section
called "Primitive Streak."

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Here her head and
backbone develop.

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On pavement, chain
link everything.

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Whistles and finite
ticks of the second hand

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between arithmetic
and square pizza.

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Where letters form
sharp piercing tools.

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Knuckles bleed and the lips
that speak dirty spic bloat

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in purple hues.

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Someone added play
to this ground.

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Idyllic and perhaps a
bit ignorant, the absence

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resonates in the throats
roaring and seen.

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Yes, she finds herself seen.

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Burning match among
the dormant book.

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Face both darker and ablaze.

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The squint of his eyes.

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More words.

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She in swell then her
boot between his legs.

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Fists and fists to cheekbones.

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And more fists.

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The circle engulfs her.

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Somewhere in the blur, in
distance, a bell rings.

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