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under the blue willow smoke from your cigarette lightning at dusk

2005

she’s the wire monkey but the one with the fur on it

2005

you leave at dawn the needle’s still on the record dragging dust

2005

flying erratically a bee with a piece of green glass your watch stops

2005

a bag of yeah’s and no’s under the chair it’s neither spring nor summer

2005

through the door I hear her jeans come off a flattened spider

2005

in the laundry room foul mouthed young girls a shell far from the sea

2005

with an ant perspicacity the young programmer knots his tie

2005

few icicles devoid of the war a tie and a garter left in the fields

2005

there’s a bus strike Mount St. Helens erupts a little

2005