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Fellowship
The enduring appeal.
Tracking and mapping
the bear, we witness:
Dirty caverns.
The messy after-
birth. Bilgewater.
Mink trap.
We are good students.
We pray, daily,
then cluster
beneath the speedway.
We provide the matches.
You provide the mountains.
Now, grant us
our firstborn son.
Autobiography
There is a lot we can learn from cartoons.
For instance, fate
is a rake in the face.
The globe settles
on Egypt.
No, just
a
desert,
yellow floor,
palmettos, Wile E.
all wrapped
up in
a
tornado. Have you noticed
how the anvil always drops
too late?
Some kind of jazz
ragging on in the background.
Or Jonathan Richman yowling,
Road Runner,
Road Runner,
well, not anymore.
This supermarket is more like Superman
in a parking lot
of kryptonite.
Poor hero,
trapped
under a pyramid
of charcoal briquettes.
She expected
the doors to open automatically
when clearly, someone else was thinking,
hmm. . . a banana peel. What should I do with it?
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