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14 Collage Sonnets (after Ted Berrigan)

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a four-stroke engine mowing down the koan

a riveting star from a froggy pollywog

high, tense wires thrum gutsy catacombs play me you violin

even the wind's been plagiarized O turn in it!

some say the world ends with desire how nice

But I'm the mayor of Dansig pirouettes of the last snow demur

same old damning quest daddy, will I die?

blind as Lear weeping three old monkeys whistle Winn Dixie in the rain

squalls you get the feeling there'll be more, the same

Daddy I am the mayor Of the bells, bells, the bells:

crushing pressure the diamond's heaven the diamond's hell

And I don't have the body to sing electric, balls

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SONNET #6: I Couldn't See the Lake for the Trees

the pastry prologue up above where whorleds collide

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