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sooner or later we wander off and
(distracted by whether to transcribe
how some speech really sounds
(parentheses within parenthenses
sometimes setting letters to repeat
like the h’s in all the uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs
we tend to speak)
or whether to describe
events like an omniscient mind might
something like radical tactical owls
with eyes in the backs of their heads
and an understanding of google street view)
land on something new
i love to wash the laundry basket
i love to scrub the kitchen faucet
with the water from the spout
which cleans off the spout
the virtuous cycle of self-cleaning
see me learn how to run again
and put the beer in the fridge
between each sip for maximum freshness
i love America
— and i love Schnucks
we both said
we shake our hands to the west
as a form of respect to a cardinal direction
we shake our legs orthogonally
to the left
which is to say toward the south
left of west
we all spin
i hold my cards
facing away from my chest
