Enter: The Clown.
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because you left a good-bye note written on paper made of mummies.
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they
said it was uncivil but not a crime, it is never a crime when
you die; should I begin from the beginning should I add the women,
Renisha, Rekia, Chantel, Tyisha, Yvette, Gabriella, Miriam, Jessica
On Nerves by Karen Babine
AT SOME POINT, all nerves get old. The body cannot regenerate in ways it is accustomed to doing.
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A man sings for pesos,/on the corner, his hand/ swarmed by a song of bees
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A honey bee knows the outcome of haste and yet, she is here, in the light. She lives fully, either always in fear of, or without fear of, death attached to her actions.
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Empurpled, if caught in the gloaming, before the beam sharpens against true night and reddens the dot into super clarity.
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Plain bird whose one song is all songs. / Who accompanied me once / while I waited and waited and no call came / and who, for god's sake, will not stop singing now.
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When our habits deform our bodies, we can’t hide the proof of what we do.
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