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Hetiroe Sapeins

Why du girls date hoemoe sapeins ? Us hetiroe sapeins are better !

It's like cumpairing : water and 7-up . 7-up is wetter !


And why stay in confedirate states ? Because of hurricanes yool pay 

Hyer inshirrinse rates ! And those alley gaters are after your kids ! 

& with no more slavery , your economey is in the skids ! 

& being south near Mexico , those killer bees woent have far 2 go !

Until thay reach the USA . & win thay sting U , wut will u say ? 


Without belfour , the Dallas stars aren't so good ! 

& win it rains , yool be in the mudd !

& remember your near rozwel,new Mexico ,

So aleins hoo land thair woent have far 2 go ! 

And U mite not like your haff alein chyld ! 

Because its temper mite not be myld ! 

& since floods allways follow the drout !

Wear back 2 hurricanes 4 U 2 think aybout !...

Monday's Supper

Monday's Supper


The boy's heart dance's: 
a trance 
at noon. 
Then he yawns 
like a cock's 
crow,
with a thin smile.
Picking his teeth, 
wishing the night 
fell in the sea.

Sea turtles, once eaten a year,
made by his dear 
mother;
when she tarried at the haff with fish nets 
and livid scarves
feigning, hissing... hoping 
to seize a whale.

The boy is a vagabond: 
trained with a bow 
and arrow 
to scurry on this land 
till the sun dies.
Hunger became a muse 
as he snoozes 
beneath the frenzy clouds;

The wind gathered wood fragments
--a match from his 
bottom,
''Cocoyams emerged" 
Then he finds 
himself dressed in his 
Mother's 
kitchen.

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