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…create. Impatient
that I won’t pay attention
when I’m writing stuff.
Flat mapped names turn in-
to forested hills, roads wind
towards adventure.
Listserv fight breaks out.
Among civil people, the
retorts well-researched.
Expected to know
all the dishes, servers eat
the entire menu.
At the interview
J’s hired on the spot, full of
new employee glee.
Has it really been
a month since I told you all
about my day, dear?
Formally over
twelve years of learning to look
good on this one night.
Deciding who to
take like negotiating
Mideast peace treaty.
In it she was arm
candy, someone that turned heads
unexpectedly.
Earthworms emerge, splayed
across sidewalks, tender skin
snags on rough concrete.
Who will you be, and
from where? What will have brought you
here – mere chance or choice?
He tours in a case
like an aged Ken, “mint in box”
they’d say on eBay.
A romantic name
for a seagull poop splashed walk
among spray and rocks.
A schoolteacher in
a barrel did what no man
could – lived to tell it.
Our waitress admits
the town has its share of ghosts.
We sleep with lights on.
Just water on rock.
And yet, sheer power compels
visitors to gape.
An unexpected
crocus emerges, smiling
from a brown leaf pile.
My weirdness is as
apparent in my kids as
streaks in a fake tan.
Like cows with their cud
we would chew constantly, and
then we’d all swallow.
From a Revealing
start to this auspicious point -
my life in short form.



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