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July Haikuthon '091. worn fretboard peeling blistered fingersJuly Haikuthon '09
2. possums and early fireworks peek through trees
3. Mojave sandscape prickly patches - a dry scalp
4. forests hemmed into homes
5. empty vials everywhere I sit knotted


Asymptomaticlattice degeneration-- this must be what happens when we've grown too lushAsymptomatic
to support our weight. perhaps i am blooming fat with roses, or nursing thick stems of ivy on my retinas.
i hope we won't have to go digging to reclaim whatever they came to take.


Why you shouldn't go...When you lose your footing, you might just lose yourself, slipping deep into an unchartered womb of rock, straddled by walls too sheer or too wet to climb. There is no "other way out". Several of these spiders are poisonous, but not deadly. The rats know better than to get close. Glow worms are too pretty to eat. Bats shit on you.Why you shouldn't go...
Belly-up on the cool floor and smelling like a dead fish, you think of your poor, tired mother, your thick-skulled brother and your crotchety old cat, who--you suddenly realize--never liked you and will probably piss &nb
Read it. Trust me. It's pretty good.
--
Live by the pen and pencil and you live free!
Hmm, some of this reminds me of the stuff my cousin in California writes.
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Now me lay down to sleep.
Mow da zeebas down like sheep.
Give dem to me nice and dead.
Me no happy til me fed.
-Bedtime prayer of crocs, Pearls Before Swine
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