chicane


yougivemedeadbabieswoman




mybloodistomatoes
eatenundigestedtomatoes


	isn’t it marvelous
	the control it has

el cabe de saba deh saba

	cracking me square in the teeth
	with every syllable

	dicing my heart
	like a tomato.

	these bouts
witheverysyllable witheverysyllable

	these bouts with death
	are useful to us later.

	i have broken myself
	a thousand times

thysoulthysoulthysoulthy
oulsouls

	i have stumbled drunk
	through lines
	of rhymes

abashedabasedebacle

	and been cracked

squareintheteeth squareintheteeth

	and been cracked
	in two

rawk

	into

adieuadieu

	in too


thisisnot
howiwastaughttobehuman
thatpartofmehas
sincevanished

	i have bumbled blunk
	i have

hahdahdahpappypdyadyasys

	bumbled blank
	about

eightyproofeightyproof

rawwwwk

	learning
	too much from my years
	and having grown so old

iamgodstwinbrother
letsgomakeout

	i could


	even die


	out of death.
usefultouslater usefultouslater

	my pleasure
	is a contemplative
	pain
killerkiller

	i measure by the spoonful

	and i feed you
	small doses of me
	through a paper tube hole

ifyoufartduringsex
iwillknowthatyouloveme
	
	isn’t it quite marvelous
arvelousarvelousvelousvelous
lousloususususs

	the straighter

	i become
	the farther i must
	bend my back

whosyourdaddy
	to hold its weight
	above

aba she daba se deba cle

	and as i tire
	with every breath
i loev la alveoli
	
	i pray to each my saviors

	that these rather common
	bouts with death
bythespoonful bythespoonful

	
raaawwwwwwk

	shall be useful to me later.

nopurchasenecessary
todaywastheendoftheworld
wheredidiparkmycar




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