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The Visit

My eyes as they are
I now prefer to stay
overnight and leave
in the beautiful
breaking sun 
of new day

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I want only good things to happen for you
and when those don't I feel really bad
so I bear the difference 

Chagall 2020

Hon’…huh?

despite appearances
all is exactly as it seems

staid and stale
even while nascent

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Ointment

my spirit so
unlike my hands
does not chafe
then bleed
with repeated washing

fall back 
into the water

I let my heart
be buoyed

delight
in the light

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Pat-A-Cake…





keep your oven trays clean, my friends,
lest your gingerbread taste like beef

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This is reality, Greg

eternity today
is no longer
a tale 
of two mirrors

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The Name I’m In

with my inside out, among the lint and pebbly motes that
line the frayed seam, there in the dimpled corner of the pocket,
lies the forgotten

with a contorted wrist and extended fingertip I burrow
and I search and I probe and I find

among the bunched fabric
a hole

hope
on the rug

oddly no dreams
leaked

those instead 
tend to seep

content 
unsafe
so fragile

once
back inside
the pour
I felt
I felt
I felt

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Coup de Grace

all we need now 
is for fucking extraterrestrials
to show up 

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the more I erase
the more I push out 
the non-retractable lead

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Euphony Baloney

It's purported
Tolkien said that "cellar door"
is the most beautiful phrase
in the English language

euphony - the quality of being 
pleasing to the ear, especially 
through a harmonious combination 
of words, e.g. "The poet put euphony 
before mere factuality"

Transmission... via 
fecal-oral and aerosols... 1

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1 Arslan, Muhammad et al. “Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 via fecal-oral and aerosols-borne routes: Environmental dynamics and implications for wastewater management in underprivileged societies.” The Science of the total environment vol. 743 (2020): 140709. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140709