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Sunset Dinner

[/// I would tell him, but he hunkered down in his bunker, debriefing with one-thousand-caliber cans of beer. He rationed himself, confidentially, to every Bud. Every friend poured from their head-wound deafening - distinctive - gurgles. ///] (… I dine at a wide clay table - face the gold-red wall. I serve myself a setting yolk - season it with salt. I eat my meal, and quickly- forbid the air its warmth. I stuff myself with sunset; starved in bed, I bawl as dusk, so kind, wraps leftovers for tomorrow evening’s gall …) He (like the day) has set; sunsets taste – different –

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Date: 12/28/2008 9:45:00 AM
Andrew - Welcome to Poetry Soup! Wishing you a Happy and Joyous New Year! Peace always, John
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Date: 12/24/2008 12:42:00 PM
Andrew - Great poem - Welcome to the Soup - Merry Christmas & God Bless, MJ
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