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R L SWIHART : Report LYN LIFSHIN : A Wet Cold Winter to Come the Paper Says APRYL FOX : Hair Saloon On Alberta Street |
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R L SWIHART ReportFor more than a half hour he sits on the connector bridge Below him is a "river" (water running in a concrete bed) Above him two helicopters (he wants to swat them like flies) In the distance a tram (limping along like a caterpillar) What's the old saw: Californians can't drive in rain poetryrepairs #197 v14.02:021
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APRYL FOX Hair Saloon On Alberta StreetThe sharp smell of hair sprly lingers in my nose like after-shave. The woman with the '80s hairdo slys it will be just a minute just a minute. She is busy performing lung surgery on a man with a mohawk and a gold nose ring that reminds me of a pirate in the Caribbean Sea. I flip through Vogue magazine, pretending to read the article about Michael Jackson or nail polish remover. When it is finally my turn I sit in the barber's chair and notice it does not swivel like the ones at the doctor's office. I tell her I just want a little to be taken off the top poetryrepairs #197 v14.02:021 |
Poetry endangers the established order of the soul - Plato REPAIR: resort, frequent or habitual going; concourse or confluence of people at or in a place; making one's way; to go, betake oneself, to arrive; return to a place; to dwell; to recover, heal, or cure; to renew; to fix to original condition. -- Oxford English Dictionary powered by ARACHNOPHILIA TOP |
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