(for Ed and Jenny)
greetings
as the door opened
ticking
please listen to this
food alone for all
the f. b. i. will continue
maybe you dozed off
i hung by that phone all night
suppose he talks
*
vida
later
aria
*
once upon a time
not looking for any thing
*
you’ re on
your own
it’ s off
it’ s on
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perhaps it means
ragged like that
golda my-yeer
pre-meer
*
and pour the old box
down a drain
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too much news
said the news
*
r e o l e
*
it’ s us
or rust
listener
*
deep
personal
regret
looking
up
monday
*
we can save
your head or your body
we can shave
*
even
his admission
is
a subtle lie
*
in suspense
what is cut into
the smallest of the
*
grinding
to fill
a prescription
*
drum to the wobble and a roll on the sea
come to mind an article of light
distance through distance unfinished
*
piano
*
willing to believe
*
national
anthem
hearer
*
perfect rhyme to some
all cars
kept in doors
*
sophisticated
newsmen
show how
it could have been
*
retreat
from the swiss
legation
*
numbers
for an event
*
corruption
why not?
*
infinite
detail
is no more real
*
thought
against
power
*
answer
it
*
hooked
to just another
piece of tape
hooked
to just one more
little piece of tape
*
through words in to
no
record
*
writer
righter
riter
*
am:
i
on replay?
*
all you
do is
expand
the system
*
a polaroid
of la
with the wrong
voice print
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astronaut
amazed
at what
was expected