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Cigarettes and Carrots (part four)

Catapulted sub-genre painters,

'the boys--the dogs of war

no one knows about'

shot across opposite tobacco oceans,

eaten by Helicoprions,

a B-rated villain.

Otherwise these teeth whips

are starved by peanut-hull boats

 

--the artists barely make impact--

 

Hungry drip paths,

bright stars stare back

with teeth like oak chairs.

 

Happy children,

always happy children

run with kites on orange-sprayed blades of grass.

They trip

--forms of dice against doorknobs.

The eternal squares before the yellow canaries

are so fast

they crest the eagle's head

atop the totem pole.

 

Mad ******* cry, as Alice commanded, about the death of all oral tales

--enraged laborous *** laughing

at what we do.

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joseph-s-c-pope
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Mar 5, 2013
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