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gopher 192.131.22.7 /Zines/Interface
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Ken Sherwood
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To Dwell in Palisestic Interstices
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Improvise right to
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draw a word to form
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a wall a well, to draft
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to dwell
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to write right
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prepositions
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a scholarly proposal
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a letter of credit
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a statement of purpose
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with prose that was,
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technically :
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scored
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lucid as "lunar"
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(Disclaimer: this is the
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product of keyboard impoversation)
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----------------------------------------------------------------
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Hype Poetry
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Virtual was being pursued
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by verisimilitude
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with veracity
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very close on his heels
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while verdad's
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been vanquished
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since anglo's victory over armada
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third world weltshmertz
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vatic's verklemft
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such fpun with
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plosives
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drags like a Ru Paul hologram
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Olson
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operated the projection
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a primitive
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simulation
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plane faked the flight
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but the neck pained for sure
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from RIF/t 1.1, a long computer variation/variorum on
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a Kostelanetz text.... part of it vamps from:
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aenas anus stuffy stiff hostliness ambiguity
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wisdom death ambiguity wisdom death sign army
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castrated ion eon awned seamy swam swami bluetongue
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aussie assay ice annoys onyx
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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W V O M VARIATIONS
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A E F R
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________________
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waves that SIMPLY
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"an ocean of dreams within a sound"--Shelley
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"Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation."--Braun
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"these sea green walls"--Screen
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_________________
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continual
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air, fuel
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wind, shaped by capable
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INDUCING
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AKIN to
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BANISH a BEACH build
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one the next
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in the
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ineluctable aspect of
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present
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some point
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poet
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weary upon the wideness of
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endless
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varied in form
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blown scatter
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pattern
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dubbed technically
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"sea" to the
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immense
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, the unquestioned
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wavedom.
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by undersides slides
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capable of vast
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entire
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virtually
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later,
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spawned
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Yet destroy
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so much denizens
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waves are an multifaceted
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portions of rich
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for filter-feeding
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KNOCK A LOOS-
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ENED LIMPET into
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center
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unearth for a vig-
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ilant
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SURF PERCH.
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Waves
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mathematics of com-
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plex, soon plunging
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rigorous
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The language
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simply a
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poetics;
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seems
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mimic the sibi-
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lance of
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itself: surf,
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swell, , spray, , SPINDRIFT
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spume spill
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whisperings: is
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version of acou-
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stic dub
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"white noise,"
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allegoric
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mix
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predict waves, base
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line structure
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egic
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assaults. heavy could
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amateur specific
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madden
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gain
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sequence--no
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"seventh
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always
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devote
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invariably
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unaware
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amid apparent
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derive
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combination of
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numerous
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crests and TROUGHS
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back onsea
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:
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sleeper waves
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coincidence of various
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Given their random isolate
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contemplate the
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,soothe
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mull the swell.
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[ed. note: the following is a collaborative text created using a networked
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computer system called Daedalus.]
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purkinge 2/17/94
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Purkinge fiber (pur kin jee): any of the specialized cardiac fibers forming a
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network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible
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for the contractions of the heart to all parts of the ventricular muscles
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J.E. Purkinge (1787-1869), Czech phisiologist]
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(meaning, the climax of, building)
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dactylism
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empirical tribe
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webbed speech
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1, numbered, 2, 3, 4
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mother mother
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under hollow
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pages
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cripes of anew
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soggy balloon
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sting in teeth
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tube
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retrotopia injection
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lattice
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overlays sky
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molecular pinches
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cuyo
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oy yo a yo a yo yo
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watercolor thoughts
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turin shrouds
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impending expansion
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crease of air
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ether proved deadly
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turbine follows
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weather expected
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earthquakes
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a choir sings
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queries sky king
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rex aeronaticus
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notes were intervals of light
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engine in the center
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mantle beginning
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increase of oceanic stew
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angels revisit
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proverbial skyward
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bells
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again
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medicated goo between reptilian fingers
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selling the book
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the donut proved hollow
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eaten absence was filled
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[GRUNT]
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never
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the circle
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a scoop of molten rock
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con/frontation
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the pasta of reason:
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conflagulation of specifics
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pure basil
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brazil
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peppermint terror
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broken palimpsest rubbed out to show
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wahzz
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then grand
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viral breathing c
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detuned
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cascades
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plumbing the artifactual skin
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the resemblance of bells to knives
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pianissimo
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ssss shhhhhh
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no differance
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lend an organ the pipes, silent
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keys of orange patience
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living
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tongue the best with reubens,
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cheek on bread. sweetbreads, breakfast
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the
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the rind of most
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soft parting of the horizon
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to reveal a set of hexagonal mirrors
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matador
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youth of iniquity
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anatomy of a lawn chair
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without shearing
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pop
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unceasing
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fur everywhere,
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the woolen pages
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the passed bowl gathering excuses
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before the evening
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cabinets
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crustaceous curmudgeon
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tilling
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rejects
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a head emerged, made of styrofoam and old
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paper, breathing oil and green smoke
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hurtle
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dragonage
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conduit
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the messerschmidts
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maltesian
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falling sky
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pyramids, miniscule
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screaming [blocks the ears]
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yah
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gulp
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try to force it down
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the agony of being buried alive
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lucite
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webbed like glass
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TREE
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ROCK
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nuff nuff
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cowboys poking round the wires
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WATER
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[things [sic] become predictable]
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impatient funk,
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the round skyscraper
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multiple free entries. Not valid in
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throat singers
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ma, ny, ut, va
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the skin of screens
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pertubed the notion of eye-site
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yu yu, yu yu, unh
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KISS THE HAIRY GORILLA
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waiting for the small mammals
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to get keyboards for fingers
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Xhosa furnishings
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on face
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sweep
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walk the walk
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and explode
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"the of word message..."
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of granite
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repeating with infinite recursion
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in the imagination of halls (aesthetic)
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unspecified
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Deontic: trying to feel my hands.
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Don't breathe
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always
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* * *
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don't walk the providence
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verbal organ
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hun
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quilted
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software
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rolled boxcars
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dry wisk of the stage
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the terrain a reproduction
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of some commerce engine
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the snake's eyes were maelstroms
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slipping slippin slippi slipp slip sli sl s
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yak lung
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annoyed
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medieval skyline: memory reamed from iron, wood,
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blocks, brands burnt into the skin.
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knighted noid
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america's railroad (by chance)
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node
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fish
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Rosicrucian express (1289): first automobile design
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yappa yack yack
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heads popping like dandelions
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ruh ruh ruh rup
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seeing you
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Horkheimer
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loss
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==========================================================================
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Paul Spirito
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pspirito@math.upenn.EDU
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"Defy the Sky"
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It is too current to be detected. She dresses to be
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tormented, but... It would have astonished him to know.
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But you checked if she was interested, keeping your eyes
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always wide, your finger on the thin chain.
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Tim rounds on the lot of them. All was uniform... a
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little dribble of spittle.
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Did she see the darkness in your gun? Zar turns true to
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his name. The one in tears, the other laughing a cool stream
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-- sharp distinctions are unwilling to be made. Interesting,
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ist es nicht, mein Freund?
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The evolved one sighs, seeming very wall between them.
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Can one blame Oedipus for his abyss?
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Zar promises, Sorry, but... He indicates Tim. The
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glistening praised his genuine enough virility, orders
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continued more living elsewhere than in the mind.
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Tim gleefully collapses. His voice, never clearer, mad
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with failure, sabersharp and bloodscalded, carves its
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message into our broken inheritance: Unashamed, it says, in
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unbounded laughing breaths, I live in light.
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Two step forward. One the Attorney, the other the
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Knight. Tim's fear stands shimmering above his body,
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beckoning. Zar wraps home long-term revenge. Perfect justice,
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he can tell, will be altered by the new equilibrium. Hands
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form shadows over hearts as he lies intricate involutions:
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Unrelaxed
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The chorus has died, and returning sleep
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transcends the desire for anything.
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An image, decked in memory, wanders the path
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within herself: the path you have labored to create.
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It is muddy, and her boots sink into the blank
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soil between the orange trees. Gasping, the moon
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dirties itself in a desperate attempt to hide.
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Obedient, the orange trees all let fall.
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A speaker moves to the podium, located
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at the head of the path. The birds
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have hidden in the trees, defenseless in their
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nests, and await as audience.
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You watch through a tragic window, far above
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all of the other watchers, even the moon.
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Dominion sits heavy on your eyelids,
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small and immortal.
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Now there is nothing, only an awakening. A broken song.
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All is quiet. The dead things are gone.
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There are no oranges on the trees, nor on the ground,
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nor anywhere.
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It did not thunder in the grove that evening.
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There was only,
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one with fire in her eyes.
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Herself! the Attorney bows slightly, intently towards
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Zar. Holy space and unholy time demand it.
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Zar gathers his goads in for the evening. Such
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distinctions refuse to be made -- space and time are one
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chair in which you must sit. Damning, isn't it, my friends?
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The evolved one cries, seeming melting glacier surround
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them. Can one blame Agamemnon for his hard-on?
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Zar permits, You --
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You cannot defy the sky! screams Tim, rising, like hot
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air; storming out, like a lyrical hurricane of love.
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Moved, the Attorney and the Knight gather into each
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others arms. They weep as they embrace, and they kiss,
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tenderly. The evolved one is transported into heaven.
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Zar fondles discreetly his knife. She was magnificent!
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The timid ones must die.
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============================================================================
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Katie Yates
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cy6440@rachel.albany.edu
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------------------------
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knew about an aftershock
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knew about how to isolate
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knew to approach
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could offer a metaphor
|
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to equal an overture
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an opening
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=============================================================================
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Benjamin Henry
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bh4781@rachel.albany.edu
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------------------------
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from: School Pictures: Portrait Production
|
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------------------------------------------
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October 31
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devices are working but worthless,
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combined in a compilation, a pile,
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a towering monolith, a phallus,
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a message to america of complication
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and harmony in work and spending dollars
|
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on air time, channeled through a tunnel underground
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where workers plough through layers of lode
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and lay wires to connect and separate those above,
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way up above in the open air;
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time rolled in negative layers, concern
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for Friday's arrival and checks locked
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at the back door constantly guarded,
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and waiting on break, sitting with a stare
|
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over heads and beyond resounding voices.
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November 15
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Scanning into eyes, almost ripped and fired
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but long and accidental, wondering as washed.
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Too late for patience wasted water
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dripping faucet open blood wounds;
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Ribs smothered sheets sticking covers wet and dirty.
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But before warm or secure but hostile home warning
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life worm boringblessed and superstitious.
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Ambulance trucking wheat disintigrate farm for spreading
|
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and factory plumage, feathers flown brown mud.
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November 16
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Washing saved skin scrubbed raw, wringing,
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|
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front door opening heard closed forgotten locked.
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Half-naked, vulnerable, admitted:
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strangeness in solidarity like radio conversation,
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spotlights bare stage dusty waxed.
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Sterile organized hidden comparison with
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cold water left running and then dripping overnight
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unnoticed, invisible, except for sound.
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=============================================================================
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end of inter\face 6. Thanks for reading.
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