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When Harry Heironymous Huffenhoffer Met Henrietta Huckhellopolis
Harry Heironymous Huffenhoffer / was leading a lonely life working nights / at the fukfoorfiffenfimmer factory
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Slowly Turning Japanese
I think in Japanese, / write down my thoughts in English, / then twist it all back into sushi:
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Scat-Man
The flames be flyin' hot tonight, / so the horns be heatin' up just right! / Skeep-deep-do-bop-bee-bop-do-skeetle-scat-woo-woo, hell-bop-ba-ska-da fra-la-la-la-la-la-la-foo-foo, yous,
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when the words dissolve upon our tongues
Dressed-up words / misguide our naked thoughts / far more than naked thoughts
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Live the Clichés
(it's cliché to admonish clichés in their entirety) / **I. (love)** / We are meant to live the clichés;
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Closer
The sky resembles the robin's eggshells / scattered across the ground, / a blue so seemingly infinite yet fragile,
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Autobahn
Rapid Eye Movements / cruise down the Autobahn, / driving dreams of soldiers
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rows of wet saplings (haiku)
frontline soldiers / march through the melting snow— / rows of wet saplings
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Afterglow
Momentary lapses of shyness within pretentiousness the size of a non-la-hat / offering shade from the sweltering sun, / confused the boy still residing beneath an
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M
Long before Horus' exposure on its trunk / and the nailing of Jesus upon its grain, / rings have been added within the Tree
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