tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77426788718036585142024-03-05T04:53:48.793-08:00Other Rooms PressORPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451246148254546413noreply@blogger.comBlogger304125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742678871803658514.post-15281738446116737642018-04-04T12:48:00.000-07:002018-04-04T12:51:20.687-07:00VIDEOPOEMS:<div>
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ORPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451246148254546413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742678871803658514.post-27315014769531970992017-02-13T13:45:00.000-08:002017-02-13T13:46:48.341-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Richard Pearse: In Memorium</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our teacher, mentor, great friend and one of our favorite poets, Rick Pearse, whose intellect, passion, generosity and talent were a tremendous source of inspiration for us both. Throughout the ten years of Other Rooms' existence, Rick was one of our biggest supporters, not only contributing many excellent poems to this publication, but also performing at numerous readings and providing the social, mental, and emotional support necessary to sustaining the poetic community we've endeavored to create. We will miss you, Rick, but your legacy and work will live on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Below are links to Richard Pearse's poems published by Other Rooms. We hope that you enjoy and appreciate them as much as we do.</span><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-07-05T09%3A37%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=1"><b>A Woman Cloud</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-07-05T09%3A42%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=1"><b>Young and Angry at the Moon</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2012/07/you-if-only.html"><b>You, if Only</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2012/07/bo-grumpus-balls-jack.html">Bo Grumpus Balls the Jack</a></b><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-05-14T20:51:00-07:00&max-results=1&reverse-paginate=true&start=1&by-date=false"><b>Verdicts of a Nap</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-05-14T20:50:00-07:00&max-results=1&reverse-paginate=true&start=2&by-date=false"><b>Your Ad in this Space</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2014/05/rick-pearse-home-town-ghost-town.html">Home Town Ghost Town</a></b><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2015/05/richard-pearse.html"><b>Sonnet 130: Perfervid Vermin & Sonnet 18: Comparison Shopping</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/08/rick-pearse.html"><b>Love Poem: Abysmal Bananas & Recipe for Sometimes Waking</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/richard-pearse.html"><b>Waking After the Election & After the Election</b></a><br />
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<b style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/11/title-page.html" style="color: black;">November 28 issue one</a></span></b><br />
<u><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover.html" style="color: black;">December 4 issue two</a></b></span></u><br />
<b><u><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/title-page.html" style="color: black;">December 11 issue three</a></span></u></b><br />
<b><u><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover_18.html" style="color: black;">December 18 issue four</a></span></u></b><br />
<b><u><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover_26.html" style="color: black;">December 26 issue five</a></span></u></b><br />
<b><br /></b><u><b><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2017/01/cover.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">January 2 issue six</a></b></u><br />
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<u><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2017/01/cover_95.html">January 16 issue eight</a></u></div>
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WE NEW WINNING AND NOW AGAIN</div>
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Preamble</div>
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What Left</div>
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What Was Never Here</div>
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What We Never Wanted</div>
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If Emily and I Heart Opened Donald</div>
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ORPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451246148254546413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742678871803658514.post-73125539428520955232017-01-22T15:00:00.004-08:002017-01-22T15:44:48.259-08:00Michael Whalen<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">TRUMP’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS, AS HEARD
BY TRUMP</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Chief
Justice Trump, President Trump, President Trump, President Trump, President Trump,
Trump, and Trump: Thank Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> We, the
citizens of Trump Land, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild
our Trump and to restore its promise for Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
determine the course of Trump Land and Trump World for years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
face challenges. Trump will confront hardships. But Trump will get the job
done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Every four
years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer
of power, and Trump is grateful to President Trump and First Lady Trump for Trump’s
gracious aid throughout this transition. Trump has been magnificent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Today's
ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely
transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to
another -- but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it to
Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> For too
long, a small group in our nation's Capital has reaped the rewards of
government while Trump has borne the cost. Washington flourished -- but Trump
did not share in enough of its wealth. Trump prospered -- but not enough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> The
establishment protected itself, but not Trump. Their victories have sometimes not
been Trump’s victories; their triumphs occasionally have not been Trump’s
triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was not
quite as much as Trump would like to celebrate for Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> That all
changes -- starting right here, and right now, because this moment is Trump’s
moment: it belongs to Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> It belongs
to Trump. This is Trump Day. This is Trump’s celebration. And this, the United
States of Trump, is Trump’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> What truly
matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government
is controlled by Trump. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day Trump
became the ruler of this nation. Trump will never be forgotten again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Everyone
is listening to Trump now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> You came
by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement the likes of
which Trump World has never seen before. At the center of this movement is a
crucial conviction: that the nation exists to serve Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump wants
great schools for Trump’s children, safe neighborhoods for Trump’s family, and more
of everything for Trump. These are the just and reasonable demands of a
righteous Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But for
too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children
trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like
tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with
cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge;
and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed
our people of so much unrealized potential.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> This
carnage continues right here and gets much worse right now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> They are
one nation -- and their pain is not Trump’s pain. Their dreams are not Trump’s dreams;
and Trump’s success will not be their success. They share one heart and one
home; Trump has a glorious destiny. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> The oath
of office Trump takes today is an oath of allegiance to Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> For many decades,
we've enriched Trump at the expense of industry; subsidized Trump while allowing
for the very sad depletion of our military; we've defended Trump while refusing
to defend Trump’s borders; and spent trillions of dollars overseas while Trump’s
infrastructure has not grown as much as Trump would like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> We've made
Trump rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has
disappeared over the horizon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump by Trump,
the Trumps Trumped and Trumped our Trumps, with not even a thought about the
millions upon millions Trump could have made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> The wealth
of our Trump has been Trumped from Trump’s Trump and then redistributed across
the entire Trump World.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> But that
is the past. And now Trump is looking only to the future. Trump is issuing a
new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every
hall of Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> From this
day forward, Trump will govern our land. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> From this
moment on, it's going to be Trump First.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Every
decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made
to benefit Trump and Trump’s family. We must protect Trump’s borders from the
ravages of other countries making Trump’s products, stealing Trump’s companies,
and destroying Trump. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength for
Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
fight for Trump with every breath in Trump’s body -- and Trump will never, ever
let Trump down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
start winning again, winning like never before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
bring back Trump’s Trumps. Trump will bring back Trump‘s Trumps. Trump will
bring back Trump’s wealth. And Trump will bring back Trump’s dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
build new Trumps, and Trumps, and Trumps, and Trumps, and Trumps, and Trumps
all across our wonderful Trump Land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
Trump Trump Trump of Trump and Trump to Trump -- reTrumping our Trump with American
hands and American labor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
follow two simple rules: Buy Trump and hire Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
seek Trump and good Trump with the nations of Trump World -- but Trump does so
with the understanding that it is the right of Trump to put Trump’s own
interests first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Trump does
not seek to impose Trump’s way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as
an example for Trump to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
reinforce old Trumps and form new Trumps -- and unite Trump against radical
Islamic anti-Trump, which Trump will Trump completely from the face of the Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> At the Trump
of our Trump will be a total allegiance to Trump, and through your loyalty to Trump,
you will discover even more loyalty to Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> When you
open your heart to Trump, there is no room for anything other than Trump. Trump
tells us, "How good and pleasant it is when Trump lives in luxury."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> We must Trump
our Trump Trump, Trump our Trump Trump, but always Trump Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">When Trump
Land is united, Trump is totally unstoppable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> There
should be no fear for Trump -- Trump is protected, and Trump will always be
protected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Trump will
be Trump by the great Trump and Trump of Trump and Trump and, most importantly,
Trump is protected by Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Finally, Trump
must Trump big and Trump even Trumper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> In Trump
Land, we Trump that Trump is only Trump as Trump as Trump is Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
Trump Trumps who Trump Trump -- constantly Trump but Trump Trump Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> The time
for Trump is Trump. Now arrives the hour of Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Do Trump Trump
Trump Trump. No Trump can match the Trump and Trump and Trump of Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
not fail. Trump will thrive and prosper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> We stand
at the birth of a new Trump, ready to Trump the mysteries of Trump to free the Trump
from the miseries of not enough Trump, and to Trump the Trumps, Trumps and Trumps
of Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> A new
national Trump will Trump our Trumps, Trump our Trumps, and Trump Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> It is time
to Trump that Trump our Trump will Trump: that whether Trump is Trump or Trump or
Trump, Trump Trumps the Trump Trump Trump of Trump, Trump enjoys the same
glorious Trump, and you all salute the great Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> And Trump
a Trump is Trump in the Trump Trump of Trump or the Trump Trump of Trump, Trump
Trumps up at Trump, Trump fills Trump’s Trump with Trump, and Trump is Trumped
with the Trump of Trump by the almighty Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> So to Trump,
in Trump Trump near Trump and far from Trump, small Trump and large Trump, from
Trump to Trump, and from Trump to Trump, Trump these Trumps:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
never be ignored again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump‘s voice,
Trump’s hopes, and Trump’s dreams will define Trump’s destiny. And Trump’s Trump
and Trump and Trump will forever Trump Trump along the Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
make Trump strong again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
make Trump wealthy again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
make Trump proud again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Trump will
make Trump safe again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> And yes, Trump,
will make Trump great again. Thank Trump. Trump bless Trump. And Trump bless Trump
Land.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b>WE NEW WINNING AND NOW AGAIN<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><i>(a mechanical cut-up of Donald
Trump’s inaugural speech, lightly edited)<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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today is important, a reasonable will. Big
states, poverty, gangs, Islamic Americans. For time I lead and space has one action. The two are the same January. Patriots must, of voice, pursue what exists: the
very wonderful will of the deprived to let every one of our people,
importantly, thank the world for me. </div>
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movement never down. America controlled
this heart and bigger. In the middle part
of the other factories, the American ones, America, special, always shares when
done. Every God for Chief is labor. </div>
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soldiers be but too moment dreams, across America crucial build the us, we
America, here, protected and all for govern reasonable. Remember that which our millions then defend
now from allegiance challenges. It’s for
the wonderful America, the openly, constantly America, we celebrate. </div>
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We strength. I will is sky, impose decision. And own but make God and again, world. But and United our job is wealth, the world patriotism.
We importantly world carnage forever
bring to end and longer. Everyone all
ready stand by. </div>
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Americans, justice
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glorious oath 2017. You unlock knowledge
which promises made foreign power. Border
not Nebraska, open hardships. </div>
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Has anyone who must
open office country had a great think about wealth borders? Borders issuing only military decay. We're destroying great dreams for gangs of capital. Forget meaning, that good born country. We Earth people capital too. Together, belong and lead today windswept
nations overseas. </div>
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impose the education, bless talk people with job ocean, defend the many drugs,
heart and souls, of all citizens. Will
constantly bring it. Not words: You will share Mothers beautiful wonderful
infrastructure. </div>
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As proud of course
Americans millions and forward and righteous, we one industry America, and
great railways done. And same with we today other. When
living and jobs you fight to and do solidarity. When God and the rebuild are here we right
your great factories. Fight never, our Detroit,
while is celebrated their will. God,
these red think triumphs build united infrastructure and capital, making us
total and America fill every day Earth. </div>
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one good ocean protect, gather every glorious enriched year for you. Unlock what we think is goodness and that through
patriots, again. We here do Washington
own like too many crime highways to dollars, and your roads will share of these
other.</div>
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industries for America is of your world and Creator. So, let’s start near Creator. So, rules: Now out and now bless here American from our
striving. We decree the end again. We like there exist victories again. Not anyone before. </div>
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of all our products. Here it is airports, the welfare again. Effort every job the borders, Americans struggling and millions. That crime great beautiful open borders
America has. </div>
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for Earth. Must heart Earth. America
overseas that way you talk and pursue American and world destiny. Nation simply refusing to be the heart and get
everyone. I by carnage winning, not the
ocean. People against our rediscovered
pride and the great public. This nation wealthy
will fight for our white dream. </div>
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United rather
every man of conviction: But open the
fight and far right celebrate. We rule world
new protected and will strength again. These
the pain. And impose our dollars which
will make America historic roads, however, again. Our America belongs by the souls, all across
destiny, transferred as for Detroit stolen. </div>
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We will destiny
together. Build to bring entire decision
heal American together that will get foreclosed. The millions armies nation shuttered
Washington. Our steps United this wealth
with night. We wealth. Near in office our new nation will empty
children. The nation left you, America. While in the lead the only crime is to promise
victories. We prosperity you. Our empty fear will empty Americans of beloved
miseries. </div>
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We every millions
vision heart, fallen of our moment again. We are for our nation. God changes unlock the same, making us our own,
but which one united forms tombstones in January? Friendship to American glory gets plains to
land. Millions already transferring
patriotism. Forgotten rights. Totally winning hour on again. We so special to stop understanding. Make we will affairs. These soldiers for honesty came and their
country in nations is come. We are from
but our challenge. Our America must
understand crime ocean. <br />
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ORPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451246148254546413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742678871803658514.post-21763414767039597362017-01-22T15:00:00.001-08:002017-01-24T14:51:18.459-08:00Paul Vargas<div class="WordSection1">
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Preamble<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">France
beat Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan by a margin of Namibia. But the number of
burgers I’ve eaten in the past ten years<i> </i>somehow<i> </i>beat the number of movies I’ve seen<i> </i>in a theater, lifetime, by a margin of
my high school graduating class plus the number of colleagues I have at work.
Burgers over France? I don’t have to tell you: this is a travesty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">So
even though the threshold for an official response is Citi Field, we’re aiming
for the L.A. Coliseum on this. And give what you can: laps at Daytona; the
Kármán Line. Even just the number of pets I’ve had could help make the
difference over Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Remember:
the best way to fight is the way we tell you to. I mean, clearly, if you can
walk and chew gum at the same time then of course you should do it, but chewing
gum is better right now. We all have to be chewing gum, together. If we’re all
chewing gum, we can make it so that Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan and burgers
never even happened. If we all chew gum now, by National Mentoring Month, we
could all be watching movies in France.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Imagine
what it would mean if we were all united. We could once and for all vanquish
the rhetoric of wet socks and airport bars that don’t open before nine. We
could dismiss for good the roaches and heights and open water dominating our
lives. All the back and shoulder and rib in the winter would have been worth
the-time-a-friend-took-three-Klonopin-and-tried-to fuck-his-cousin of this
cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This
is the most important thing you’ll do. Like the drive said: those who would
give up an essential bell to buy a little temporary dance deserve neither bells
nor dances. Now is not the time to stop thinking about whether I should go to that
ugly Christmas sweater party or if I even want to spend up to seventy dollars
on an ugly Christmas sweater, which is the root cause of a half-decent Beatles
song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I
can’t even find a good one. I ran a search for maybe a second, and I got
literally millions of refugees. All kinds. Syrian refugees; Tunisian refugees.
Yemeni refugees. I don’t want to show up wearing the same refugee as somebody
else, but I also don’t want to spend the rest of my life searching for the
perfect refugee. You know?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Doesn’t
even start ‘til after nine. After a whole invasion of Iraq and subsequent
expansion of the War on Terror to include the extrajudicial assassination of
human beings by drone, just about the last fucking thing I want to do is
not-bathe in lead-contaminated water, put on a refugee, and stand around
listening to pointless conversations wiretapped with only the rubber stamp of a
secret court proceeding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">My
brother picked up a pretty sweet refugee, though. Said he saved the number of
children who can be shot to death at an elementary school four years ago only
to become a footnote in an encyclopedia of brutality for the nation at large.
I’m just as shocked as you are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Anyway,
thank you for your support. We’ll be in touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Past is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">what left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Not a sepia past or a <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">horse-and-buggy past, but <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the constant Past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The only Past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yesterday is always gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">then you’re a fucking prick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yesterday is always simply <i>gone</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and no proof exists of Tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Of it, there is only Evidence:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the sun rose Yesterday, and we live,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">presently, so the sun may well rise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We treat the Past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">like a lover cheating<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">after we cheated,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">its trespasses never so fucking clear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">as when the Past trespasses against us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">All the rules bent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and theories elided;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the loyalties assumed;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the arrogance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">that just because one <i>has</i> something<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">that means one may <i>keep</i> something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Past dies daily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Past dies for those<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">shot by a cop or drowned by <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">dark waters. It leaves daily<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">for those shoved to the dirt or <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">dropped off the rolls. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It leaves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">daily for anyone <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">who’d count those poor souls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">as relations,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">for everyone to whom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">such terrors are due,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">for anyone who fears the new,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and the fucking rest of us, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">That is the only Truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And yet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the Truth is full of ants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">They march within it; consume what<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">makes it, then spill like water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">pouring from its cracks turned holes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">turned chasms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Do ants scurry? Fucking fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Once they rush forth from the Truth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">like the tide rushing in, they scurry <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the fuck away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This is key. This is vital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">One might wake up every morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and try to truly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">understand that <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yesterday is always gone:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the Past dies daily,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">leaving only Evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And the Truth is full<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">of fucking ants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What
Was Never Here<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Party
Guest: “Oh, but really biting satire is always better than physical force.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Isaac
Davis: “No, physical force is always better with Nazis.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">—<i></i>Manhattan
(1979), <i>by Woody Allen*<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Fucking evidence is never fucking proof.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Until you see the fucking sun rise, you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">cannot prove the sun will fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">king rise tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Frankly, that truth has been my fucking
rock,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">unleashed through maddening years of the
fucking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">chiseling that is the crush of injustice
every fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">king day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Forget proof. There’s no fucking proof,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">unless you’re a fucking mathematician,
in which<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">case there’s proof all day long, that
ends in fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">king paradox.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Forget justice. There is no fucking
justice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">under the weight of so fucking many<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">clawing for what so few can ever fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">king have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Forget Earth. There is no fucking
Earth:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">umbilical fucking fealty paid to the
Sun,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">circling it until the end of its fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">king life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Forge some faith in fucking
imagination, for its<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">uses go beyond fantasies of a
fucking elf<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">coming to our rescue on the back of
a fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">king dragon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Forge some fucking love for
fundamental<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">uncertainty, and find some fucking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">comfort in the fact that we are fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">king here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For now and always, our fucking
existence is an<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">unqualified fucking miracle, that requires<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">constant respect and attention, lest
it one day fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">king stop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For my sake and yours, drop the
fucking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">understatement and kill the fucking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">craven jokes and let’s focus on the
fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">king terror.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For despite all the fucking bitching<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">uninhibited by that fucking lack of
imagination,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">come January that jackass will be the fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">king President.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Fucking help a stranger like we f<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">ucking love ourselves, not just because
we fu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">cking must but ‘cause we fuc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">*alleged
rapist who’s still making movies, despite investigations, </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> the publishing of a
heartrending letter by his accuser, and years </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> of jokes/petitions/think pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What
We Never Wanted<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">(with gratitude to James Luther
Dickinson)</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This did not “happen” to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This is something we made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Pray we learn that same distrust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We’ve guzzled fame like our guts
wouldn’t bust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It warbled and cheeped like a penny
arcade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This did not “happen” to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Duty is borne like a hernia truss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Grant us a break from “slaying” and
“shade.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Pray we learn that same distrust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Magazine marches and newspaper lust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Beers slapped on tabs that are
easily paid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This did not “happen” to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Flash flies a jet while work takes
the bus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Glory snorts concert and satire
parade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Pray we learn that same distrust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The wages of fame are ashes and
rust. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Duty is plain, dull, and quietly
paid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This did not “happen” to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Pray we learn that same distrust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What
Remains<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">All that ever lasts is Memory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">With it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">from the detritus <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">of the rest—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the hazes and pangs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">from our rust and rot,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">those phases of Yesterday;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the dust of Evidence of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the regular death of the Past;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the waste of Truth—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">springs the glory of all humanity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">upon which our survival hangs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Memory brings us home to fall <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">in love and sends us out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">to fall from it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Memory breathes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and breeds contempt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and seeds desire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">for more Memory. Each of us <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">is reborn over seven years, then </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> over
again;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I will start my fifth life soon, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> with the
memories of a boy long </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> dead. Them I completely own:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the worst I’ve done; the best I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> am: I
remember it. And more: I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> have it, as it has me. Every day <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">gone is me, and the hope for </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> days to
come are me, too,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">as much as they are you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I don’t need to rise. I’m here </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> already! As
are you, and you, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> and you—you especially, you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">interminably, you magnificently </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> and
cravenly—you because I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><i> remember</i> you, you
lushly and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">proud and loudly and precious </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> and luscious
and profound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We are here already, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and we’ve been here before, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and because we may yet be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">here again, we cannot forget<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">we are already involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The terms of resistance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">are presented us daily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We have others who’ll imagine </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> with us; who’ll
love and fight </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> with us; who’ll dance under dim <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">lights with us and work in quiet </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> rooms; we
have others to push </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> with us to fix what uncertainty <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">breaks and make what i</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> imagination demands.
We have </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> that dogged persistence and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">riotous pacing; we know how to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> show reverence
and respect </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> for those in pain. We have alms;
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">we give alms. We recall our </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> duty. We’ve
just been <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">assholes about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Nine days in ten we bury that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> duty. We
can’t bear reminders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">of our mortality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">But we’ll always have to do this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">On a gray Tuesday in March<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">if there’ll be one; on a bright<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Friday in June if it comes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rain; sleet; hail; snow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Heat; breeze; chill; damp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We chase Fascist jackbooters; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Communist
murderers. Loathe </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Democrat grifters;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Republican looters. They’re as </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> guilty of
obstructing progress as </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> we are of assuming it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Who’s the bastard this time? Is </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> it
Donald Trump? Very well, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> then. It’s Donald Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I fear no man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">too cheap for his suit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I fear no men<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">duped by a wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I pity an idiot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">who vomits a screed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and calls it smart;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I pity the art<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">of a flimsy deal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I don’t wish a man harm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">but to his ego. I want<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">a man gone but more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">than Evidence suggests<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">he could ever consider,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I want us healed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and moving. I want our </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Memories long,
and vibrant;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I want us looking over our<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">shoulder not in fear of what </span><br />
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but with respect for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">tremendous nasty collusion disgusting bigly win. winning.
stupid weak loser they are politically correct morons. we are smart tough
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">are </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">dangerous </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">catastrophes.
My win is always winning. My wins collect weak stupid losers.
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">don’t know zero. we are the future. embrace my bigly future you
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">I am going to do. I want to. I am going to. And
you know what? thank you very much. we’re going to win. to
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again. in the history of all over the place. and you know
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/11/title-page.html">November 28 issue one</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover.html">December 4 issue two</a></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover_18.html">December 18 issue four</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover_26.html">December 26 issue five</a></span></b><br />
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<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2017/01/jared-schickling.html">Jared Schickling</a></h2>
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SUGGESTIONS FOR THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> THE PHANTOM PILOT</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"> NOTES FOR THE BLACKBERRY (R.I.P. TV)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"> HALITOSIS 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"> POEM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"> ON THE CORONATION OF DONALD TRUMP</span></div>
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The Big Game Is Every Night</div>
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Year in Streaming</div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poem on Ted Berrigan’s Birthday Placed in an Old Pair of New Balance Sneakers and Left on the Stoop at New Balance Factory Outlet Store Brighton Massachusetts</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: whitesmoke;"> Wrong Shirt</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 10px;">Today is no different</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">where are we when we are no longer enough?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The day before the election.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She asks,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we all are trying</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“How can
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">that</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> kind of hope. How can I<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">we all are trying<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>The Big Game Is Every Night</b><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i> i.m. Jason
Molina<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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the Civil War, should i give up <o:p></o:p></div>
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on charms of my lover’s mouth?<o:p></o:p></div>
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in a pink pink pink <o:p></o:p></div>
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punk swoon love
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its difficulties, readjusts <o:p></o:p></div>
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its power as you can <o:p></o:p></div>
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make a mirror<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>warm <span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as you fall back into your <o:p></o:p></div>
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love of one more thing <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
as vulnerable clarity <span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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through their going <o:p></o:p></div>
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some return to you <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
through the impact <o:p></o:p></div>
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of needing, being <o:p></o:p></div>
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kneaded<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>through <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
alms that steady <o:p></o:p></div>
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the blush<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span>to skim <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
the lake for good vibrations <span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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small and unhidden – <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i>slow going, but it is
going </i><i><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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Resistance – <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
it’s a big game <o:p></o:p></div>
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& the big game <o:p></o:p></div>
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is <u>every</u> night, <o:p></o:p></div>
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a mountainous rose </div>
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swells of diamond surfers,</div>
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dub sparks </div>
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on the moon’s hood, </div>
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glittery wolf </div>
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at the brim of her kind</div>
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<b>Year in Streaming<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
hands as
full and in-</div>
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complete as dancers </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
denying the
inaugural </div>
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summering
down</div>
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clovered in
rosemary</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
could i burn
through </div>
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waxing rainbow moonstone </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
in a
spiral, crocodile </div>
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the child
& siren align </div>
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wave by
wave </div>
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<br /></div>
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but at what
difference</div>
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and roses.
allllll day. </div>
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“will you
stop suffering </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
for </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
like, a
minute?” </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
breaking into the river </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
for
everything at once </div>
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is stone
ground down to powder </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
thrown, a
tumbler brought closer </div>
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through all
you’ve never had:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
to teach
myself to rest is </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
not to
squander, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
to
quarantine is linening this madness </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
lighter off
as sun hit </div>
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cymbal </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
gonging to
ask by swan-</div>
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swank
humming </div>
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back when we
were still </div>
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planets to a
plum, </div>
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an anxious
fissure casque </div>
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<br /></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Poem on Ted Berrigan’s Birthday Placed in an
Old Pair of New Balance Sneakers and Left on the Stoop at New Balance Factory
Outlet Store Brighton Massachusetts <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i>my name is [your name] and I am your
constituent</i> – <i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The shoes of
the fisherman are some </div>
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jive-ass
slippers. </div>
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The shoes of
the fisherman’s wife are </div>
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The shoes of
the fisherman’s ex-wife </div>
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are some
hive-mass </div>
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trip-ass tippers.</div>
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<br /></div>
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With the
city with the country</div>
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and its
daddy issues</div>
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Not even the angels </div>
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want to wear </div>
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<br /></div>
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my red shoes </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
from the
overflowing </div>
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brim of a
high-</div>
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mind
american moral</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
bargain bin</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
I’ve walked
too far with </div>
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ghosts of
old balance – </div>
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power, </div>
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its
stultifying molds</div>
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<br /></div>
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it’s been
hard doing anything</div>
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lately with
a dream of keeping it </div>
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together,
tender not fragile, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
a childhood speaks to </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
its riot, </div>
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understanding
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
fear, taken
out of </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
context,
fails both sides </div>
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of the
divide, </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
that which
is made to </div>
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laugh behind,
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
return in,
from </div>
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worn down
heals <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a></div>
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to emptied
out busking </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
anger, past </div>
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trips i hung
up on </div>
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<br /></div>
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pleas of
displacement after the block fire</div>
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pleas for an
end to being a bystander </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
please for
being “the literary one” </div>
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at the
office, tasked </div>
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to explain
the difference </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
between </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Roman vs
Greek tragedy </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
(this one
being </div>
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neither – </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
there there
there empty
stand me here, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
or</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
here here
here &
we aren’t going anywhere </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
being
neither </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
violet thrush, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
nor sunburst
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
as Shoeless Joe </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
sits </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
til the end
of the anthem, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
stands </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
before a
game that’s already begun</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
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11.15.2016</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Wrong Shirt<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Before a big production meeting some businessmen, presenters
and clients alike, gather in the public restroom, primping and adjusting,
rehearsing phrases in the </div>
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mirror like so many hot-air hand-dryers. Some
invisible Pan removes their shirts and flings them in a cottony mountain on the
restroom floor. The men, now each stripped </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
of their carefully shaped
professional identity, desperately sift through the pile of shirts for their
own; however, the relative similarities in the cuts, sizes, and colors result </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
in various mistaken identities. A few discombobulating false starts result in
discomfits from a too tight color, a too long sleeve, an errant pattern, an
unfamiliar stripe. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Despite frantic obfuscations, the men collectively pull
together. By the time of the meeting, any attempts to impress the potential
client, or intimidate with hard-lined </div>
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negotiation tactics, proves ineffective,
as each man from the bathroom looks around the table, out-of-breath, face discolored,
silently terrified that at some critical </div>
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negotiation point, they may be exposed
by a savvier, more opportunistic man at the same table, who might break their
silent pact – though troubling the line, if one were </div>
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to be exposed, the whole
outfit would be implicated – that every one of them at the table was wearing
the wrong shirt…</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>High Contrast<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i>After Gabor Szabo<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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(after Grenier)</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
wind as slight a yellow</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
butterfly
above her</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
shorter</div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“we alter
things</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
we haven’t
made ourselves”</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Overheard:</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“can
you stop suffering</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
for,
like, a <u>minute</u>?” </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
the consensus is / an engine </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
is dumber than a gun & that’s <u>hard</u>. </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
What’s “move forward”? Anything can </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
call an apse an apse. </div>
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What’s that BOOMING out there?</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
What’s “an economy”? </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Grease the rose of reason? </div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Of </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
an out-of-range-</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
quaker </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
sculpting with color </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
the sites</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
of former theatres </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
to project<br />
<div style="text-indent: 0px;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> all forgotten loves</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
on the scrim of </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
your closed eyes. </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Hold on </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
to what you have – </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
so little. </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Of.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
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<br /></div>
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If a flag to fault </div>
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for- </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
giving Saints</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
the choice </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
to stand for </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i> </i><u>for</u> </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
or not </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“attention now </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
wistfully drifting</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
into distance” (Sotere
Torregian)</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i> (5)
Just a Little Communication <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in;">
brah yelling <i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in;">
from the blue of</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in;">
his passenger side </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in;">
FREE RIDE! </div>
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FREE RIDE!!</div>
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Breathing sustains a voice.
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How mouths treat your peace.
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beyond quarantine zones </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">January 9, 2017</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/11/title-page.html">November 28 issue one</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover.html">December 4 issue two</a></b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/title-page.html">December 11 issue three</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover_18.html">December 18 issue four</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover_26.html">December 26 issue five</a></span></b><br />
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Until Silence</div>
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Body Tag</div>
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Drowning</div>
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POST-TRUTH, OR, IF YOU'VE DONE NOTHING WRONG, THEN WHY ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE CAMERAS?<br />
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<b><i> (A poem for alarming times, with word borrowings from</i></b><br />
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<b><i> Hot Lot</i></b><br />
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Going out of business sale, Arden Way<br />
Soccer balls, jump ropes, Quench gum, lemon and grape<br />
All just cream pies in a painting by Thiebaud<br />
Fat strokes of optimistic white nineteen sixties<br />
Now sun-bleached, cracked as Trumpish brain folds<br />
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I wonder, still I wonder, who stopped the rain<br />
‘Cause around here someone did, that’s plain<br />
Decades of weight on the gas pedals of our<br />
Thing-lust motors ‘til heat of our porny fantasies<br />
Begets this fire sale rising from hot blacktop<br />
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<b><i> Hot Yosemite</i></b><br />
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Silent ditties emit from far off foam<br />
Granitic vulva, imagined splashes, moans<br />
Water rocks freaked in black stripes of summer heat<br />
Tawny orange global warming burning cracks<br />
In terror cliff, Zen rock, half-breast Half Dome<br />
Carry more and more far off memories of whitest snow<br />
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Vernal flowers adorn May dogwoods<br />
But no daffadillies, no musk rose, among the crow toe<br />
Tracks in soft dust, where forest pastures<br />
Once rolled, now gone in blazes of flowing flame<br />
Little beetles run in whelming tides<br />
Up down hapless stressed out sunburned tree skin<br />
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<b><i> Hot Body</i></b><br />
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When does it become not OK, to continue to be hungry?<br />
Fortunate sons of this fecund, round-bellied, naughty<br />
Earth-orb ignore how even her strong, lovely body<br />
Can have enough internal combustions<br />
Enough fossil fuel age privileges of stuff and speed<br />
And speed and stuff and too easy freedom<br />
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Close bosom friend, she has long been<br />
To the late summer sun, but now somehow<br />
Our cleverness and clarity and insight Apollonian<br />
Rots inwardly, and fearful contagion foul<br />
From the speech of the wolf strangely sways the sheep<br />
Heedless now of sun’s excess on earth’s clever freckled face<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/11/title-page.html">November 28 issue one</a></span></b><br />
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While you weren't thinking</div>
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The fake news isn't funny anymore</div>
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Steve Bannon isn't a Football coach</div>
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November of 2016</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The fake news isn't funny anymore</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cataracts in the soup <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Split pea brain sycophants in the tv
snow <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They sound
like Pleasantville plastic Ken and Barbie <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trying to sell me Tupperware <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tunisian pearls <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the myth that being a
billionaire <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">means that one is smart <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An assumption <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in a sumthin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a white noise <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sure, sounds good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Is a factoid At this point
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Is a tabloid <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Did you notice that your source
there is a rag?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Freedom from censorship <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">means the liberty to tag <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">your neighbors name <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in a pile <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of your other neighbor's <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">bullshit <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When I grow up <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I wanna be a soldier <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the liberal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">War on Christmas <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">News is getting olds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To vote <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Their fearful consciences <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trembling like autumn leaves
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In tiny chairs <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That I'm growing into <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Can someone factcheck my opinion on
this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I don't even know where to start
now <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I present it to you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On marble steps <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That I slept on once<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With a million other populist
zombies <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Crawling up while prodded back by
cop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(A boot print on the face <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">is not the cool story of
scars) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or waded through by red-striped
stilts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harried inconsequential
underlings <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There is a golden thread of
anti-intellectualism <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Weaving thru each sleepy head <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">No guard against the static <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">No filter for the action figures
bobbing murky waters <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of above-ground backyard suburban
status symbol pools <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Craig Kite says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> DON'T
turn out the vote <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tell them to stay on their
couches <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Until they're
done doing their homework<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The eyes are cloudy and
prostituted <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stockholm syndrome is the working
stiff smile <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I feel so undereducated <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I feel like a bourgeoning elitist in
denial <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My brother borrowed two houses in MD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And says I have more money than
him <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He's right and I also own
nothing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And eat lettuce in a New York City
gym <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The fake news isn't funny
anymore <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It's turning my adorable
mother <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">into my ideological enemy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Steve Bannon isn't a Football
coach </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Oh</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"> I am completely
in control <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
Of my Anger <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"> I am
safely far away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">From my anger <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
Controlling me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">I can assure you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
That I am Not seeing red <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">I am seeing steady
swirls <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
Of warm white rising steam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">I am WELL aware <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
That They are in control
now <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">It is palpable <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
That they are Dominating me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">And the fact
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Of my cold
eyes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The
I-will-take-you-down-motherfucker-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
Face that I am making <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Is not a fact needs
fucking checking <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
I am making it purposefully <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">There are PLENTY of
things <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
That I'm not in control of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">My Anger <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
Is not one more way <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">That they can get to
me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
These two black widows <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
in my pupils <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The shudders slow releasing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The tectonic plates
plates I'm shifting <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The rumbling as I
breathe <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"> The snake
that is my seething <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
Extending from my long sleeves <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The black cloud I'm
projecting <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">(It will rain and when
it rains)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The rustling in my leaves <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The dumb-haired doll
I'm stabbing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Is exactly the right
reaction <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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To times fucked up as these <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">I do not need to
apologize </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">For making you
feel <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Uncomfortable <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">At Thanksgiving dinner
this year <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Because I brought my
own Tofurkey <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">And Steve Bannon isn't
a Football coach <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">And you don't <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Understand <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The concept <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Epistemology <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The Anger <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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That I'm intentionally <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"> allowing
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At this moment <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Is exactly <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The appropriate <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Response <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">This <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">FUCKED <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">UP <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Situation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ORPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451246148254546413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742678871803658514.post-91642175942699254052017-01-01T16:14:00.000-08:002017-01-02T15:19:36.779-08:00Yi Wu<br />
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<br />
November of 2016<br />
<br />
Like a cross-country high-speed chase<br />
unfolding before the checkerboard composed of fifty watering holes<br />
where the scattering motion of droppings of a hammer,<br />
like mice’s, were disguised poorly<br />
despite how a newsman’s grey-haired composure made us feeling<br />
he could be counting heartbeats while he shuffled cards and silently<br />
switched the Joker with a piece of Domino<br />
<br />
Stones fell like deferred hails<br />
and we witnessed the freeze-dried compression of facial expressions,<br />
fragile, but potent, they bumped off many electrical switches too<br />
along the way<br />
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The power to deny<br />
is the power<br />
of hate<br />
<br />
Cowardice and lies<br />
are to what our hands and fate<br />
are tied<br />
<br />
Ballots were dissimilar from maple leaves: they were the debris of our bottled<br />
message flushed by the inexorable and ever-lasting waves.<br />
<br />
They became commercially available fish food for thought.<br />
They were entangled in dead seaweed and algae blooms.<br />
<br />
We missed the crimson edge of the mountain at the sunset’s moment.<br />
We obsessed over the flashlight rays of orange.<br />
<br />
They gave vague promises about things to be done at stoppage time:<br />
a clean sweep of angel wings, a clean sheet made by the negation of goalposts.<br />
<br />
We misread tides: the wolves had descended from the neatly spread tablecloth,<br />
where we sat and played many musical chairs until the wine spoiled.<br />
<br />
We shared an empty decanter nevertheless for the consolation and then engaged<br />
in theory-heavy disputation with each other about the timing of cheers.<br />
<br />
We stared at the bread we just broke overtaken by pesticide-resistant flies<br />
and laughed sheepishly about the impending bad smell in the noses<br />
<br />
Behold not the chuckle and the puzzle<br />
but prepare for the heavy lift and leaning<br />
when your neighbor is about to stumble,<br />
in the sawdust-and-squeaking-gnats-filled wave of rubble<br />
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<br />
Title: Neither/Noir<br />
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<br />
After black feathers have fallen, we now see<br />
the steely pole, standing inside a vase, made of pale porcelain<br />
and I have not seen a human standing within its vicinity.<br />
Not a breath is heard when echoed past howls of diggers reverberate down<br />
to a spinal profligacy, with a vastness of rolling coconut shells.<br />
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<br />
Meanwhile, the shellings have never ceased<br />
on the coast of Mediterranean Sea,<br />
where dislodged faces floating<br />
make their grimace seen amidst the soughing<br />
waves of hair that remain on the skin of deceased.<br />
Neither have the chattering.<br />
<br />
<br />
Few layers survive to be touched casually<br />
as lava, into which<br />
all our heated stones go,<br />
ascend into a crest, disguised<br />
as roller coaster tracks.<br />
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<br />
Dear Barry, where are our stolen ballots?<br />
Thrown into the filing cabinet, they said.<br />
Dear Barry, where is our lawsuit?<br />
Thrown into the filing cabinet, they said.<br />
Dear Barry, where is the gold-plated cheat sheet for the chemically reshuffled keyboard?<br />
Look in the filing cabinet while wailing the notes away like stretched gummy bears, they said.<br />
Dear Barry, where did you make the sermon while the inquisitors never heard it?<br />
Listen to the words in the filing cabinet. Every one of these is a key to eternity, they said.<br />
Dear Barry, where is the man who took the pipes with the barbed fences?<br />
Find him in the soon-to-be cabinet. He was thrown in after slipping out of the sermon, they said.<br />
Dear Barry, where is the pile of hardened unburned coals tossed at the ladybug?<br />
Burn them in the filing cabinet with unused candle wicks, they said.<br />
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As he may have also said, any wall or curtain too will be broken by a peephole<br />
where a naked wire through which there is a subtle game of telephone<br />
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<b>good neighbors<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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i’m gonna build a wall between my
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to keep out weeds from fungus and
out fungus from my weeds</div>
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and maybe then an exoskull will
exemplify my weeds</div>
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growing out between the fungal
separating weeds</div>
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then maybe we can maybe grow a baby
cephalopod </div>
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to be a better citizen—citizen
cephalopod</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
in xanadu did kubla khan a stately
cephalopod</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
decreed by hungry bottomfed
steakfried cephalopod</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and drinking corn in drinking form
we wait for a bomb</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
wait and see if it makes three when
added to a bomb</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
we wait and wait and wait again and
wait until a bomb</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
bombs us in our bomb shelter
sheltered from the bomb</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
but least of ill is last of auld
divided by the spleen</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
keeping out the enemy poisoning the
spleen</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
by injection or ingestion or
transplanting of a spleen</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
(it takes no special training to
tell a liver from the spleen) </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
so sing to mold and mildew but
celebrate the weeds</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
drink to ancient rimes and fish but
not a cephalopod</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
raise your glass to waiting but
never to a bomb</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and wait until the ferry drops us
by the sycamore</div>
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<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b>desdemona’s fate (is all of ours)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
as a poor and hopeless soul sat
crying by the sycamore</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
(and andy warhol lying dying by the
sycamore)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
or else it is a rabbit trying to
cut down a sycamore</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
as we try rowing in our boats made of
sycamore</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and choirs of angels sing in praise
of oil and gingerbread</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
to feed the poor and rich alike
with barrels of gingerbread</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and men and women made of money and
of gingerbread</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
let loose in flights of bullion
bricks baked in gingerbread</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
meanwhile all the minions of a
monster we’ve unleashed</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
just like the strays that overrun
the cities they’re unleashed</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and manta rays that fly above and
move about unleashed</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
zap us in our rocking chairs until
we’re all unleashed</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
from west to east and north to
south and west to south and east</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
to north and south to east and east
to west and north to east</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
to south and south to west and west
back north and south to east</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
it may just take four revolutions
to go from west to east</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and so we rest upon our rocks
beside the sycamore</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and feast upon crusty loaf and
moldy gingerbread</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
waiting for the tops and tips and
tongues to be unleashed</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
folded firmly in our arms as we
remain unfinished</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b>1812<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
a house slaves built is now
complete but something’s still unfinished</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
no one knows just what is it that
stands there yet unfinished</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
silhouette against the dusk of this
structure that’s unfinished</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
crooked in the moonlit field behind
our house unfinished</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and yet the man says he can build a
monument to ruin</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
he boasts about it night and day as
if his life’s a ruin</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and all his pasts and all his nows
are just another ruin</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
waiting for a future that our
fetishes will ruin</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
in the distance sirens wail and
draw us to the wood</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
where totems once erected tall of
yellow painted wood</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
came crumbling down in one last
chance carving into wood</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
a monument to elegance when metal
meets with wood</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and in the dawning of the age of
one last harpsichord</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
the song will play to take the boy
who plays the harpsichord</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
each and every morning break when
his harpsichord</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
is buried in the ground beside his
mother’s harpsichord</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
go back into that dark night where
it was left unfinished</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
beside the temple rent by rock and
fire down to ruin</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and fire set to paper homes and
vehicles of wood</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
while angles shifted back by force are
eaten by the ants</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
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</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b>by the river hudson i laid down and jerked off<br />
</b><br />
when i was younger i’d step on ants just to step on ants</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
they crunched on concrete crunching
as the sound of crunching ants </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
broke beneath my boots the crunch
and crackle of the ants</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
exoskulls crack transcendental
releasing souls of ants</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and bees past my face did float as
a punch nearmissing mine </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
twist my mane making fast to the
loosehand side by mine<br />
i asked eileen if i could coax her with a finger only mine </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
my arm swept wide to engulf her gloom
by way of her to mine</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br />
wrapped under where we were when we were moving right</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
by the time we reached the left
bank cash jolted to the right<br />
to which was when we wore our wounds no matter what was right<br />
and wounds are a serious thing to wear whether left or right</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br />
forward into memory or forward into flame</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
nostalgia is a dangerous burn when
looked at through a flame</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and all our candles calling back by
black and white through flame</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
a house of white built by black and
once again in flame</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
an elephant made of steel swallowed
by the ants</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
dripping oil from its bowels on
workers in the mine</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
who gave their lives to live their
lives as we by what now’s right</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
till the soil and corporation
conflicting at the crossroads</div>
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<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b>11/7 – 11/9<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
we're almost to the bend of place
where karma meets the crossroads<br />
almost in the turnaround at the back end of a crossroads<br />
where cavalier and currycooked happen in the crossroads<br />
mostly all surrounding oil in the pothole at the crossroads<br />
<br />
and if we turn back now and here everything's a given<br />
portable and possible or else it's just a given<br />
and none recall the name they took or the name we've all been given<br />
so we pick a name that means something else and all of it is given<br />
<br />
but after all and in the fall all our parts are taken<br />
from moon to glow or grass to grate all the greens are taken<br />
as blue and black and pink and red and also gray are taken<br />
so that leaves peach and cerulean and nothing else was taken<br />
<br />
from the time we once knew each other in the factory<br />
laughing at the meat and fat and all that's of the factory<br />
like the horse led to slaughter water chamber at the factory<br />
can't make him drink nor only thankful now there is no factory<br />
<br />
gaslight by the fireplace corona by the crossroads<br />
captain of my sole hung face all my hunk is given<br />
and stud by horse or stand by bull the humidity is taken<br />
we get the law that we deserve and it seems we've scraped the bottom</div>
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<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b>by our meat you shall know us, and our fat will grease your gears<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
at the surface lit by light but diffused
at the bottom<br />
from here we only hear of it and dream it from the bottom<br />
occasionally someone sees the light down at the bottom<br />
but heat that vents up from the core protects us at the bottom<br />
<br />
we are the feeders in the dark we work for evolution<br />
toil in trouble double tapping time out evolution<br />
biting flesh or eating leaf or fucking—evolution<br />
statistically against us but that's just evolution<br />
<br />
and if it falls it falls for all what does it even matter<br />
kingdoms come and then they fall that's just a fact of matter<br />
another fact we all must face is a plainer matter<br />
evolution or revolution will change the state of matter<br />
<br />
so to the surface some will rise while most just go on drowning<br />
splashing is a funner fling but there's still joy in drowning<br />
in lake or pond river stream or bathtub where we're drowning<br />
diving is a deeper thing yet it all leads to drowning<br />
<br />
we're all drowning now except those dying at the bottom<br />
there's no escaping plots and plans of wealth or evolution<br />
the playyard or the graveground both sit center in the matter<br />
but tourniquet and trampoline both bleed blood borne of oil</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b>2016<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
last night i ate linguine with meat
cooked in olive oil</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
transparent moments of peace and
joy are always olive oil</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
but peace is priced beyond the
barrel trading blood for oil</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and joy is abstract in its glooming
metaphor for oil</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and humanity is just a family like
a pattern of a shell</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
we lost a lot of love this time
through cracking in the shell</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and we lost a lot of blood in time
constructed like a shell</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
there’s nothing left but to mourn
those gone now from our shell</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and round and round and round and
round and round it goes eternal</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
and round it goes eternal and round
and round eternal</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
there’s nothing left but floods of
tears and blood and oil eternal</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
infernal is this villain coming but
his come is not eternal</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
but if you carry pictures of him or
of chairman mao</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
you ain’t gonna make it with anyone
so it might as well be mao</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
or idi<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> amin
or pol pot or c<span lang="EN">eaușescu papa doc or
mao<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN">as now we fall right into this another chairman mao<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN">then let’s not let us bury lettuce in vinegar and oil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN">let’s not pack too much meat into this fragile shell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN">let’s instead steer clear of here and hope it’s not eternal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN">that human devils have groped our gardens and cultivate the weeds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Issue Five</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">December 26, 2016</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/11/title-page.html">November 28 issue one</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover.html">December 4 issue two</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/title-page.html"><strong>December 11 issue three</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/cover_18.html"><b>December 18 issue four</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">ISSN 2334-1114</span></h2>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />ORPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451246148254546413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742678871803658514.post-9722623418666885702016-12-26T13:48:00.006-08:002016-12-27T10:46:17.944-08:00Contents<h2>
<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/paul-hostovsky.html">Paul Hostovsky</a></h2>
MY COUNTRY ISN'T<br />
THE GOOD NEWS<br />
EVIL<br />
LESSONS ON ELECTION DAY<br />
THE DOLLAR IN THE WISHING WELL<br />
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<h2>
<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/james-juletid.html">James Juletid</a></h2>
<h2>
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<h2>
<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/george-wallace.html">George Wallace</a></h2>
<div>
MADMAN AT THE WHEEL</div>
<h2>
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<h2>
<a href="http://otherroomspress.blogspot.com/2016/12/susan-lewis.html">Susan Lewis</a></h2>
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Amounting To</div>
<div>
Civilization</div>
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