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SOME DAYS
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Absinthe, The Green Ferry, The Black Cat			

nocturnal electric
body with

a dangerous
perfume. 

Nocturnal,
seductive

playful, 
independent

Chat Noir

with two friends


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They Were Paining			

she said, all
the rain of terror

after the TV
there was nothing

no absinthe, no
green fancy

to stop what
scratches

Bodies were numb.
Some imagined the

soul talking,
squeezed uncomfortably 

behind the heart
as unable to sleep


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How Can You Expect Me Not to Write About Death?			

Is there any other subject
splashed these last weeks
thickly across TV? Last 
night I woke up wondering
how I could stand not 
having my cat curl into my
skin, a fur doll, a breathing
pillow. How can I not think
of the bloated girl on the
feeding tube, legs splayed,
mouth connected to world 
by a tube for medicine and
food. Why wouldn't death
seep into every dream? 
who isn't thinking of their
wills, the funerals they will
or won't have? With the 
Pope's body lying in state
how can I not think of my
mother's last hours, the
purple velvet they carried her
off in. It's Aril 4, I want to
think of the wild plum my, 
my favorite trees unfolding
slowly, late like a difficult
birth


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