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How to Dissect a Love-lineI stroke your skin like a leaf / and hold it up to the light, / allowing fingertips
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Breakfast in bedThese berries are bruises / Fading birthmarks I have still / Fresh from that morning you opened my curtains
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Future-sickAnd I feel this sludge / running down the long halls of my legs / a flood of viscous petrol jelly
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I try to write poetry but I am tired.I try to write when I am tired / but tiny spiders descend around my desk. / Newly-hatched eight limbed-things
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Out of the woodworkYou come out with the ants at night / Out of the woodwork / When the work of building needs to rest
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Quaking Times (99%)I know what we have is really quite solid. / But today I convinced myself of an earthquake. / Perhaps it began on screen
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The Marine LayerClouds engulf the L.A. basin / Layered mold in the / tubberware
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Coffee Shop MenagerieI go out for coffee / to see the display. / A dozen glass cases
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Running dreams: a cricket singsThere's a cricket inside our room / but I'm trying to sleep and shouldn't / think about cricket legs
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*****Look at her now. / The mattress, speckled Marborro-black / seized Grandma up again.
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