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DEPARTMENT STORE POPULISM

Once a billionaire you can’t be anything else 

Shockingly thrifty or your origin story doesn’t matter

Laughter at the expense

Casual decisions make someone else die a little

You are a traitor to creation

less secret on the wooden floor

Trash separated and sorted

A bright sunny day means endless meetings

you’ll be tan anyway

The rat race is over

You won 

It’s more like a please and thank you pile

in which the rats discuss the confusing nature of assets 

with you as the love object

I like rats but I have never been one

Will the bank mow the lawns of the empty houses

The moral of folktales is to desire wealth

to love scarcity which is actual love

to leave in a carriage with a prince 

who can’t tell the difference between a girl and bird

and wonder if we’re all one soul or isolated

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THE COURSE IS OVER WHEN THE SPLIT HAIR SINGS

8 pm deadline

Every mind channel shouts AMERICAN REGIME CHANGE

Go ahead and put the Bible on every reading list

Long books with many chapters are my favorite

What if it says not to eat meat

What if it says to care for those who have less

What if it says a lot about sharing

What if it says not to kill

What if it says don’t bother judging anyone

What if it has stories within stories 

The hills roll like lambs

in the time of helicopters and black flies

How will the future remember this

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SOUNDTRACK FOR A NOVEL

Women who take long walks feel love

which is what I will feel when I meet someone 

who is also not looking at a cell phone

I will say step into this air space

Tell me where did you go when you went far from home

Are most movies set in the past in order to avoid technology

You will say the beginning of social media marks the end of freedom

Who are you I don’t care but I care a lot

Who is your child’s influencer 

Is your son watching a mantube bro show

The thing that’s supposed to make him more world learned

is known as a device

Mostly I’d rather be daydreaming

When I see someone else in a yellow raincoat

I know we are part of something larger than ourselves

Connected by yellow as though the gray sky wouldn’t swallow us

Even in darkness I know

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I WANTED A NASTY BOY

I lost my voice

It crawled into a hibiscus bloom

which wilted and fell off

then gobbled down without taste by the dog

who had diarrhea out in the woods

A coyote licked the soup off a pile of leaves

turned around thrice and had babies

the babies ran through evolution so fast 

one turned into time 

and said your life is really long

time is not short at all

It’s not even time

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WORKFORCE

The real hunt is to once unleashed 

pick up as many hidden things as you can

put them inside you and call it beauty from within 

Even if you found the least

All the children will have the most

Who wants fame when you could know everything about literature

and open and close your hands 

reading them like books

Words melt together in a common mold

A new kindness emerges like moss

What ever happens grass will cover it

All the big ideas taste impossible

taste a little like destruction

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XSAF

I miss my tumors

My disaster is boring

My revolution is quiet

and requires much preparation

notes and reading

When a book begins with talk of districts

the setting is a future and utopia didn’t happen

By district I mean political control

a theft started softly as chuckles

rubbed into belief and then policy

When I’m quiet just know I’m whining at the door

I’m like the farmer’s daughter who turns straw into gold

except I turn hair into silver

When I say minutes I mean years

It took so long to get to the half-life

By long I mean effort

By so I mean so much

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NELLY

They drive you home

They unlock the door

They refer to people by first and last name

They press you for what you will give them

Give into them

They remove shoes

They walk with an umbrella but you are all wet

They are always reading

They strike matches

Pick up the rock if you have power

You do not have power

Kidnapped by narration

They are all in hell together

They wait at the mall gates

They will squeeze so hard until cancer rolls around and throws up everywhere

The needles go into a special glass

that will go into a special carton at the end of the day

Picked up by the ones who work there

When galloping with horses you are horses

They wear ribbed and satin ribbon

They forgot about cruelty and fell in love with the house

They slip into flannel 

They will not bend

You thought you were free that you weren’t one of them

They slip into robes so cold they are blue

They said what about posture