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an improvisation rooster. fair dismantling clear affection
                             an improvisation
                            rooster. fair dismantling
                                clear affection.


everybody doesn't
            know what
they're doing, when
they're not looking
     no-switch lockup
            like the tourists                
teaching each other
    english on the fly

     we were grieving haze

     it was cravings game

            hard shell sweets

        hershey-jerky

my secret victim
    and the source text
feels like it weighed a ton

with each rejection,
it grows
    goodbye but
    I am not done
    with you yet

This poem appears in the 2006 Anthology
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