October 2008
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Nerves
they squirmed like worms but i swallowed them like pills and washed them down with 6, 7, 8 #9s dissolved them and drowned them until their final shiver shrank and what poured from my sticky mouth filmed in froth and foam was everything all inside-out lured from the damp den by a lean so hopelessly magnetic and then those dark and delicate dancers dripping blindly across ribbons of cream as the...
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Tattoo
The hooks fell from the wall to the ground and from dripping bowls floated cacti so stereotypical and puddles blossomed pink and yellow the cheshire cat grinned maniacal above matchsticks black and burning on skin between buttons and buttonholes and behind vacant irises my thumb rubbed the scales of shoulder shimmering dory such a permanent blunder and your face met your hand and your knees met...
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The Thin Black Line
the orange smoldered secretly one of twenty and the friction of crickets swallowed the city noises so far away the milky blue of negative seven feathered with the trembling shadows of negative eight and with my forehead against the chill of glass my mind remained twenty-six minutes away