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On Puppy Birth and the Nature of MotherhoodMy mother enters the kitchen, says that her hands / are dripping, begs my father to finish his work / at the sink. I observe, for a moment, the expression
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Love Only Knocks OnceLove only knocks once. / Maybe she can be scouted- / out thereafter, sought and
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a developmentas o'ergrown with lust / my childish spirit yet / has been naively quick to trust
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There Was an AntToday, I ashed my cigarette / on the ground, but it kept / burning, and there was an
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When I Cooked a MayflyI placed my bread to heat for just five seconds-- / behold: when I came for it, it wasn't alone. / A mayfly had set up camp (so to speak)
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Where did Frank James Davis go?This isn't a poem. Seriously, where'd he go?
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Human ConsumptionThe vibrant blue paint on the walls seems / almost like that emblematic Technicolor / blue. I've had the blues, but they didn't
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PSAStop arbitrarily replacing commas with semicolons. Stop it. / Thanks everybody!
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Pedal ToneInsistent I can be as they / ("She'll never take a rest," they say); / indignant in my restless way,
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Pins and PreservativesMajestic is the scarab, / whose beauty persists / in the favor of people;
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