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And then I want to read
a couple from this book

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called These Days of Candy from
the mighty, mighty Noemi Press.

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Much love.

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And this one is also about
the mischievous angels.

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It's called Quake.

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"The angel of
Marlboro Smoke Road

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emerged from its coral reef
like a small ornate necktie.

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My neighbor insists,
these hooligans

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might very well be members of
a 21st century cavalry fixed

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on intergalactic expansion.

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The angels are
giggling and odorous.

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So beautiful, they reek of mead.

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José's front door
was strongarmed

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by a rambunctious
mob of rollerblading

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angels insistent upon skating
unhindered through his living

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room.

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You hear them laughing
at 3:00 in the morning,

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threatening cyanide pills
stamped with hairy insignias

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in your morning coffee.

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The angels have stolen every
light bulb in her room.

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And now, she is without light.

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My heart sank when I discovered
angels were filled with helium.

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Shattered, I shoot away
the moon with a tabloid

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and submerge myself neck deep
in its milky lacrimation.

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The angels have painted
their flowered faces obsidian

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while a telluric hunger
flashes beneath their tongues.

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A tobacco tooth angel
scraped its bloody gums

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with a razor blade, and there
is an infinite rainforest

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embroidered on its cape
encircled by a microscopic neon

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peephole.

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The angels flour footed all
over my favorite kitchen mural.

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34,000 angels
wheelbarrowed inflation

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to the marketplace
of their duties.

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When I grow weary,
I can no longer

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resist the temptation to count
the missing plates emptied

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from my cupboards all because
of some drunken angel's

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fondness for Frisbee.

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In bed, broken verses
bleed over my bare feet

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like the head of a decapitated
carousel horse planted

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by 2-bit cinema gangsters.

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Pretending to sleep,
I relish the news

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of a new rising lord intent
on withdrawing its troops."

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