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Excuse the length, especially just after Lord Bloch’s.

Written on a bridge at Featherock, on a bridge, in November, that being the Featherock in Schulenberg, Texas.  Middle Tempest I. Fog Lecture October.Thunder in dull momentsShuffling puddles around tanned grass.And when the gusts settled,There was a serious silence,Your brow contracted with a seaward knowledge. What is the question answered?What the place of moments of […]

Pedantry: Don’t Leave Home Without It

Cigarettes are $6.00 in Phoenix, so, if you come here, make sure to stock up first. Here’s a narrative poem I wrote at some point. Aeneus and Dido Meeting I.bursting into the hall—spilling chickenwings, cold from refrigeration (you hadwaited until midnight to be ableto eat them) and glossy with barbequeand hot and hot-barbeque, tumbling outof […]

Ode: Intimations of Immortality Recollected From a Recent Trip to the Dallas Aquarium

Of late I was privy to that scummy hovel,that breeding ground of licentiousness,the Dallas Aquarium.Yeah, so I saw the bottom of some sharks,and a three-toed sloth (The very name is a sin!),and some jellyfish.I can find no argument against warming the globeif it means wiping these inane things off the planet. Finding my system, and, […]

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