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guess
with Walter all set
enjoying his coffee
upon the plaid square
twice folded over
to give a little cush
back to Judaism



i might
just write tonight



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i've got these ideas for things
flowin' all over the place
in space



i
can’t
always access



and that kinda sucks—



Like
life,



full of
loss and
strife and
Bryan Adams
songs




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nothin but paper airplanes
and empty hangers
a writer's toll--bridged

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Hooked on Hyphens



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The Moment



what's on my mind?


the
moment

when this girlie in a tight-
fit business suit
first walked into my life


confident
beautiful
sexy
were
perfect titties w/slight cleav


while
shakin' that kind of ass
one never forgets


the look
the feel
the sound
the slit


each time i -


A roughneck in a crewneck
singin' crosscheck on the low tech


would

         hit
               it



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Barter




shirt off. sun out. A soft Dixon
meets the first sheet of 700
spilling untrained on college ruled


there are orange
pink
& purple petals pole to pole. i do
not pretend to know their type

there are windmills dancing
and chime sounds floating around
for all you
pretty meadows


but hang on


side yard says some dude just pulled up

bet he's here to view the house
for sale across the street



gonna stare 'em down




wonder if he'd mind a poet who waters the lawn in nothin but his boxers
and who pays a woman to mow it in nothin but her coveralls and red hair down there



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4 Shorties From the Long Bored




i miss the jetty 
on the west side

how even the stillness
moved me


engineered to have
the perfect distance
from the pier



used to drift
out there
with wooden lust
and stay till 10
like nothin  


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i burned the roof
of my mouth
on a microwavable burrito
last night
and it's bleeding right now
as i eat beef stir fry
in a cup

on yet
another lunch
spent
inside the truck
somewhere
in Idaho


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today
where pots hang
in the 
sunshine sky
on
hooks
brushed over
the salt of a split
in green


the sound
of her voice
comin' @ me

bakes
phlegm
pastries 


==================


tonight
i write
under the satellites
with
the itch of dry pine
and wine
in my right—


life
is a circus
full 
of elephants


come back to my arms
and you'll
never be stomped  




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For all the Ticks




you and
all your natural beauty 
looked my way today
with these vege thread eyes
i could just curl up beside
and watch for all the ticks
speak their nonsense or
not - they give me life

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Light on the Sauce




even though
the world's heavy
and the fog
thick in San Francisco
when love
sinks a battleship


i know that
if i were to dip into a bag
of some fried mozzarella sticks
off a North Beach food truck
i'd become
one with the universe


floating
light on the sauce









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Powell and Chestnut





Blink Blink
    182


the CD goes crunch 
under my trippin' shoe


having stumbled upon
a group of tone-deaf ears

  

   i think i'll disappear—




from this one-night stand


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An Eye for Fly



hittin' the block top hat in thought with no laces to trip
i – the on the lookout guy
poppin' some spearmint off the smoky sauce

continue the hunt for any 
of those Sunday driver / investor types
carrying worked over Miyagi sticks

AKA   an eye for fly


so to B.B. Saint Christopher protect
all the aged brick
from being taken down
and turned into
yet another patch of land
split
into rows
resembling something
beyond a gate
that you’ve gotta count to connect with


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