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These next two are
a couple of poems

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from a series that
I'm working on,

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which is tentatively, right
now, titled "Plume, Plumage."

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"Port Authority."

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"One-- "stink of the television.

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Impression on my fingers.

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They smell and I smell of
garlic in this opulence

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and of territory.

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The rumble approaches.

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Can you hear the war,
and what does it say?

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Do I wish for another highway,
another pained encounter with?

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The whirlwind of traveling
mistakes me, and I do succumb.

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The kitchen and the
bathroom, merely closets.

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I am trying to
keep things hidden.

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I am trying for florid
prose and lapse.

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Or how outside is
different and my eyes

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can't adjust quick enough.

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Setting aside the rings,
fingers shaping clay

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to forget the
process, resurfaces

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as tool for recuperation,
writing from the dump

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about the beauty of trash.

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The wind has picked
apart the trash.

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The food in this town has
gotten progressively worse.

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Two-- generating borders
provokes my dismay.

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Why don't I write
about identity?

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I do and don't punctuate well.

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Those are swallows
made difficult.

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These are swallows as animals.

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They have plumage.

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This is a question swerving
towards species preservation.

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Don't we belong to
the same instance?

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As though it were enough.

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I am thoroughly bored,
resisting the splayed timeline.

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Presuppose an existence
based on extinction.

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Anyway, what's the use?

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I'm not welcome in certain
parts, and in certain parts

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the summer is unbearably humid,
and they don't have fans.

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My map is mad and torn in
all the wrong locations.

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The streets are
crammed together.

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How can anyone live so close?

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It's only a map.

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I'm going to need a new one.

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Sorry-- it's only a map.

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I'm going to Prague and
will need a new one.

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Beatrice assures me that
Prague isn't in danger.

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Thank God.

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This is a gesture towards
self-preservation,

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while everything else but
intuition slights safety.

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People are tired
of being afraid,

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of hanging around the borders.

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My fingers stink,
inherently political,

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but the plea isn't clear.

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I am getting to it, illuminating
the century as the end of it.

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Yes, poets do matter.

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Elliot catapulted us into the
bang versus whimper binary,

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though the spring
bleeds into summer.

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I still eat bruised fruit
and take showers frequently.

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Twenty eight days ago, I
wasn't sure of it, the daylight

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or the birdsong, and
nothing's changed,

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edging toward another paradigm
to capture another frame,

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though the moment's
already thoroughly shifted.

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The green on the other side
of the century isn't an oasis.

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I am trying to be frugal.

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I am trying to be precise.

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Our encounters
matter as encounters.

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But the species is centric.

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The species are centric."

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