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Bowl of Light - The Argotist Online

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how punk<br />

All these men nab carrots<br />

their heads to the side<br />

in love with something <strong>of</strong>f screen while<br />

wives telepathically quiz them<br />

their personality traits and no one hears we can only do one<br />

thing at a time, popular discrepancies aside this arm <strong>of</strong> the galaxy<br />

devoid <strong>of</strong>/feeling numb from/the Novocain gum hurt<br />

spinal block ear-splitting<br />

screeches <strong>of</strong> childbirth and terraforming before<br />

it all goes dark<br />

and the woman with matches<br />

is the other side <strong>of</strong> the room reapplying lip<br />

stick your guns are all in safety<br />

deposit boxes and with the power <strong>of</strong>f<br />

you're power poor,<br />

smiling vapid and discourteously<br />

staring at the small stars her lower back pre-ass<br />

denim warm from the dryer hot<br />

under fingers that otherwise hold grooves straight <strong>of</strong>f<br />

a 78 and guitar solos played<br />

by gods that once walked through<br />

the waiting room<br />

walls covered too many times paint<br />

hanging in adenoid flaps so wind sings the room<br />

through the open curtains near<br />

which she has moved the smoke from the leaky fireplace too,<br />

carried it in vanilla lily arms a small box a small dog curly with hair,<br />

reminiscent <strong>of</strong> casualties on television in some<br />

small place the priveleged ignore until the<br />

wax/water/blood among their own personal arrangements<br />

the Mercedes stalled on the any highways hubcap<br />

deep in ephemera attrition and septic hurricane water<br />

spill what you know and pull back before you get it cut <strong>of</strong>f.

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