on a slow mend
happy to sing

dead at sea
dead like a trophy

crowned one inch to spare
the room a quarter of a sphere
four numbers
traveling towards a wall

but the friction...

unpredicted rebound to impact
crude comedy, seamless complexity

yet i began to move with pride
i mastered its speedy
zig & zag.

& for lincoln tyler henry tried river gorge cassius lincoln taylor

& for one guilty stride
& for a 4-3-2-1
to one

dear betty baby
dead at sea
dead like a trophy

i say we walk
right

in the front door

perhaps to settle in
as if we lived there

i say we walk
but

neglect to mention

i do live there

you threw a bar of soap at a cockroach
found an alarm clock wrapped in a towel

ah... peanut butter, oh my!
crematorium is busy tonight

we bless easy company
then to unwrap
otherwise expressed in soft ticks

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eyes i believe shut
above me my body

asleep in my clothes

& buttressed by what
knocked
twice flat
sleeping in my clothes

the wind knocked out tho my chest keeps rising.
the wind knocked out of my field of view
flat without a back.

also included in [wakefield vol.1] cd

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on launching
one question:

since when did you feel your work subsumed ?

on a serpentine walk i saw a snake.
a serpentine orbit
i was
sworn to describe it

when did you feel your work subsumed ?

on a serpentine walk

 it might have been

April 3, 1974

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