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And fingers and prepositional phrases that
Fill all space with tongue’s emission.
Here’s to all misprints on fogged windows,
Where happy quotes from The Wizard of Oz
And Pygmalion have been remembered and
Stuck to walls that have had warm bodies and
Breath smashed diligently. And to the paint
Left on someone’s nape and rump. To those
That traced that line. That sucked it down.
That drove it in between freckles.
For all spasms that have been squeezed out of
A pleasure for pleasure, for the pleasing of
Someone’s pleasurable delight.
Any who can climb down the stem of pleasure,
Do so now and then again.
To those who say thank you to velvet and slick
Nerves whose existence remains to resuscitate
Your endless motions.
To those who love to be entered by gremlins
From China and edicts from Spain and bossa novans
From Argentina. There is a superfluous form
All entrance makers take, bowing, migrating.
Let us all drizzle out and slide into the abyss.
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