a chicken with its head cut off
takes part in a melodrama
fit for a swan

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both halves of my daughter
live thinking they are survived
by the other

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mall nuns.

just nuns
taking a shortcut.

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my daughter uses a pencil
when pretending
to smoke.  

nesting failure

makes her sad.

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I spend my days seeing things.

as if
youth is a museum

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poverty isn’t