Two Poems
Mark Cunningham

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By "mutual funds," they meant my savings account and the war's budget. "Originally human life was so strongly affected by its participation mystique. . . ." He pointed to the moss on the rock and said, "it looks like a Hostess Cupcake right there." Who's the man whose smell makes all the dogs wag their tails is as far as I've got on my Shaft theme song. Just use your anti-gnat force. I'm using mine, and I'm doing okay.


[specimen]

The tree's branches and roots would mirror each other if it weren't for the earth and the air. My figure has become grounds for dissatisfaction. That cloned sheep's turd don't count for shit. The committee did not find "made you look" a convincing defense of my pseudo-science. We flipped a coin -- weird event in space-time or just bad dubbing? It's been around a while: they already make foam out of it.