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We're winding down and as
Whitman would probably say,

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every poetry reading should
include a naked snake dance.

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So, one of the detours
that I've taken

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so far in the
manuscript on my way

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to the underworld where Walt is,
is through the Garden of Eden.

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And, this is one of
those poems, which

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I think Carl is going to
do a broadside of which I'm

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excited about.

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It's called "Serpentine."

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"A glimpse of the under yellow,
lazy, hairpin turn in the tree.

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This wheedle-bodied, onyx-eyed,
peacocky, slug of a creature.

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This glitter of the brain stem.

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This please, baby.

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Draped where wasps were zeroing
like memory in dessert wines.

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This red zagged, zig
backed, smooth groover,

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marbled the big
branch and hung out.

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Mr. Mother Tongue.

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Everywhere he was,
was horizon, belt

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and buckling and undulation.

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The groin's syllable
and the sleep fuck.

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Mr. Do Me.

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Mr. Rewind.

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Never enough to go around.

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Never enough to heat his blood.

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This sidewinder, heart binder.

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This hell belly with a body
like a reel, dangled before her.

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Threw his voice into
her, until even the mynas

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couldn't tell the truth.

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But at the stations
of bewilderment

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touch is always first.

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The fruit dropped violet, seedy.

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The Capri fig unseaming in her
palm of egg genitalia, which

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she swallowed.

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And bitter sweetened saw him
go up the sleeve of darkness.

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The all embraceable, the
wrap around, the slow ride,

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the tunnel of love."