“In and out of the back door I keep falling into the same hole my father dug decades ago. But my mother left the front door open, and I must remember that some changes scatter forward.”
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degaussing the alleyway I heard you say my child would never here they come the complex beaches the child who counts the backwards legos the old womaning the skiffs tomorrow's vacuum yesterdayed the static radioed shake voice shak down the alleyway cited by a dumpster that nevered itself while the dog fed the neighbor the key the mother swallowed mother my child child my mother the fruit flies like the sour grapes while the grapes fruit the flies the calm sea seaed the sailors until the sailors seaed the calm as ducks bill the teller for the bread unpicked i never said she sold the mortgage to the pony raced past the pantry collapsed on the milkman she nevered the doorway shut the pantry neveredward the milkman’s neverstruck the morning tomorrow nevereborned yesterday police police police police guard guard guard guard ghost ghost ghost ghosted ghosting the precinct ghosted the precinct till the apple peels while hound hound hounds hounding buffalo buffalo buffalo buffaloed hounding the girl they haunt mindless plain plane unplain tallening the never your child the empty chair waited beneathing the dumpster each pocket carried its own never the alleyway nevered itself unthed into neverness offed you not do say never nevered the never until the never began nevering =======
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