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Exodus 3:14
It was a strange sermon.
Most adults were nodding
in deference,
some with fatigue.
I didn’t get it, until I got home
and heard a different version
watching Popeye on...
Sometimes I sit in a room
and listen to the silence
which isn't really silence
but a collection of many subtle sounds
similar to a television or radio
playing in the background
they are there...
Napkin poems
By closing time
the pretty ones looked tired too.
That helped.
The bartender wiped down the counter
like he was erasing a crime.
A man I used to sleep...
My refrigerator said I was going to die
my refrigerator makes an all doom sound once in a while
it used to really bother me when I was crazy
I really thought they were...
Hollywood
don’t trust anyone
always question the avatar
if it is actually a representation
it is likely modified
no one really likes how they look
and if they tell you they do
they're...
It’s the 4th of July and I don’t feel free having to listen to...
the neighbors are setting off fireworks
the sky is farting national pride
only it’s like the civil war
it looks and feels like they’re firing them at...
My refrigerator said I was going to die
my refrigerator makes an all doom sound once in a while
it used to really bother me when I was crazy
I really thought they were...
from a seat in the garden
blue jays build a nest in the pine,
swallows migrate overhead,
wren in and out of the compost,
centipede in beak
behind the fence
children screech,
entitled neighbours
don’t distance from...

























