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Sampling the creative fruits of my peers
A show where the noise is peacefully mean
I imagine a surgery to get a glass of ice implanted
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I can go there with you
to the sounds like tiny rakes dragging tiny leaves
but I have heard enough noise music in my life
to fill all of the shoes I own
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I Wicked Witch home on my violet bicycle
lean left lean right
I like to steer by moving as little as possible
so it's like i'm steering with my mind
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I see a black cat frozen
one paw out front in a sneaky low contrapposto
I see a man in the same stance
I hear him wrapping or unwrapping something
Sharp and clear crinkling of paper
amplified in the empty street
Candy or cigarette
when it is hot we move as little as possible
looking like frozen things melting
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When the friend is the phone
When the phone is the friend
I'm bored of the New York movie
There's just the one now
I live in it but it's theirs
The bug world that I used to escape into
the huge river in a gutter after it rains
when I was a little girl
I had a ragdoll
the only doll I ever owned
shiny trash on the street was alive
small mysterious animals
sun bleached decorations in windows
to personalize My Big Dusty Apple
It's all theirs now
Ice cream men must dream
to a soundtrack of the ice cream song
I try hard not to melt all over my friends
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How literary this story is
but I will never be the one to write it
Lucia tells me I would love her new squat
See the sign with the dog and the gramophone? See the dog?
She directs me on Google Maps Street View over the phone
See the sign? See the little dog?
Keep going west and you'll see our house
See where there's a place where stairs should be?
my rooms right above there. We've fixed it up a lot
we've taken a lot of the boards off the windows,
we should take off more maybe, what do you think about that Manny?
Yeah well I know, he says we have to stay low key but anyways
I'm going to send you a picture of my room I mean not of the mess on the floor
but architecturally its really nice Livi you'd love it Livi
You can't put all your eggs in one basket
especially like golden eggs
Ya...really disappointing
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The coolest boy at school
who was also a ferocious dog
a huge black and white sort of greyhound with shaggy fur
A little too skinny in his clothes
a sloping nose and big smiling mouth
sort of Joey Ramone sort of JK
Bad posture like he was turning into a dog
he was turning into a dog
I wanted to be near him but he bit my hands
The shabbiest house on the block has the best roses
The haunted house with boards over the basement windows
In June I saw a charming group
Of roses all begin to droop
I pepped them up with chicken soup!
Sprinkle once
Sprinkle twice
Sprinkle chicken soup with rice
I love going to work early Saturday mornings
My brain is still sleeping
golden light at its rising slant
Wearing all white, you know this dilemma,
but all of the white items are slightly different shades
Various stages of graying and yellowing
I think the only way to do it right would be
to buy all the white items new at the same time
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I set a fire
To exorcise my fate
When I watched her turn to soot and ash
I didn't know I would also catch
Fire flame
I forgot my name
flame, fire
I'm horse lame
The desire that the eyelash
I wished on in the airplane
would flutter all the way down
to the ground below
