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"Neoplasticity."

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"Leaning heads together, is
that how we get heads of state?

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Clarity in thinking.

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The most recent president
is closing the window

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to readjust the
temperature of my study.

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What configuration allows
for the malleable things

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to live long and prosper?

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Unallowed to believe.

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Statistical logics prevail.

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I could easily name a
country whose language

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was forcibly removed.

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Or I could be silent,
nude, and obscene as

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when the porno on
screen is muted.

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Cutting another kind of
track for this brazen fever.

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There are burns and
bruises in the atmosphere.

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This erupts into
a national stink.

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To be humanitarian is to eat
grapes by the swimming pool.

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The nation in hand, at hand,
dumping seeds and excesses

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into a bucket.

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I tried to rescind the
impulse to add another person

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into the equation.

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I speak personally and
question my own authority

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to speak personally.

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And how did I become
a representative?

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Was I elected?

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Missing and
contradicting, my feathers

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are stuck on with superglue, and
my cape is a Halloween costume.

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It is raining and the
streets are slick,

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but people don't slide.

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Not allowed, such blessed
and appropriate grace.

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I get drenched by the oncoming
traffic, waiting for the light

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to change.

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This is ridiculous.

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I am nervous, folding
napkins, and notice

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the cloth is worn in the fold,
the usual fold over and over.

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What leaps I can take
into grandiosity.

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What generous participation I
request in contradicting myself

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over and over.

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From a high-rise building,
I jump to be caught.

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I have tried reinforcing
my Tupperware's politics.

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Making a mold disintegrate
in the stubborn heat

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of the microwave.

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Burnt plastic dolls.

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Don't do that, please.

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I'm getting sharper and
don't brush my hair anymore.

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And won't go wandering off.

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Wonder Bread,
grease, and cheese.

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Too tired to listen,
and then someone

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will deliver an arrangement
of camellias for me

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to help me forget the pain and
the florist's repeating design.

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In a close-up narrative,
perspectivally

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shifting and lulled into a film.

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I can go on and on about
Drew Barrymore's new coif.

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Who does her hair, who?

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Or will the simple
city bus drive over

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me, and someone will
claim it was a mistake.

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This intransigence won't go away
more than my mouth beckoning

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audience.

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But the business
closed down last week,

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and I have nowhere to go.

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Please let me sit down on the
bench and catch my breath.

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It is only my breath."

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