1

I thinks

he says,

"you are so sexy

it makes me

nauceous."



***



2

One more day...til

I eat him like

anima.



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3

Jennie: She

smuggles her

pencil and sketchbook

into the stall for

some quiet

and emerges with

a masterpiece.



***



4

He asks if

I have always

been like this like

how I am.

"I am like a

present on Groundhog's

Day," is what

I reply.



***



5

The stomach flu

passes no fashions.



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6

arg!

I am tired

of writing licks for

a daddy always

cruisin' for other

girls to call his

mommy.



***



7

Methinks he is amnesiac

forgetting who makes

up me in seconds

though I keep reminding

him.



***



8

Too many

school zones

too little

education.



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9

Nothing so much

as a greeting

of dog's dinner at

the door, that is

(not enough Alka Seltzer

in the world)

as meeting your

dinner half-way

to it.



***



10

Making mixtapes

I am sixteen again

bowling over pins

and needles tumbling

butter-fluttering out

of the way.



***



11

Gaslight gives to

blue Mondays.



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12

There is a lot

going on--

he says things

that are obvious

and I answer

things like, "I

know."



***



13

Not Chip nor Dale.

Two squirrels

in fluffy-tailed

glory chase

rounds about

this branch, it

is neither here

nor there.



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14

Drunk at the Bar.

The muffled mania of

this house is eerily

still when the mind

goes wandering and

the drinks aren't

stiff enough

for this crush

to quaff and

reconnect.



***



15

I chuck a

banana out

the window because

it is old and

I can.



***



16

"C'mon and

eat this

sweatervest."



***



17

These are his

thumbs he pulls

out of his coat pocket

in a ringbox.



***



18

It would be

a pleasure to

misspell your

name in the

licks of my pages.



***



19

Woke up next to

another guy, wishing

it was you.

12/10/2006

Posted on 12/10/2006
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