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Clad, half-clad, starkers. Darkness! Cameras! Action!<br />

We drank lemonade <strong>and</strong> watched the sun go down behind the big elk.<br />

My identity is sensational.<br />

I had a pair of eyes but no underst<strong>and</strong>ing. “A book is a blindspot <strong>and</strong> a lens!” I<br />

yelled into the thermos.<br />

(The idea was to get behind the scene <strong>and</strong> eat it too, mucking up the underpinning<br />

to establish a stronger surface. If masks are spoons, races must be served up<br />

like soup.)<br />

Does around a rimless lake.<br />

The unnumbered question is our sleep.<br />

Conjunctions join us at the clouded structure.<br />

Sleep in someone else’s ear.<br />

Dirt is reasonably cheap.<br />

For my money, though, there is really only one cookbook to buy: Barbara Kafka’s<br />

Microwave Gourmet.<br />

The sun sets into my bicep. I clear sockets. Paint lamps the house. The eye<br />

(shape) carries the sound (argument). The early lines cross both of my eyes with<br />

an idea of advancing light.<br />

A gamble: deck/heck.<br />

The parallel (more than?) guess.

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