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An Excessively Forward Suggestion on the Occasion of Our First Date
I am not in love
just been reading Rexroth his soft
parables are not really, but they speak
to me despite his vile accep-
tance of the way things are
in that moment while
those old leaves are just the same
now, and again, they are not
so radioactive as to seem
any different or less crisp
to me, though women
act different now, thank someone.
A dozen H-bombs are nothing to
biology, if not to me.
Gamma over time is
already beaten on average.
One word wrong, fragrant in the mouth
like a foot or cheese
matters more in the grand foreground
than any scheme of future things.
When I'm about to say _____
Cover my lips!
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Romanticized Economics
Two empires bellied up
to the same wooden table, each
with its own provinces' misunderstanding
as if with intention the other's custom, and trade
was a slow matter of searched ships
in designated harbors, harboring
in each little the other
couldn't do without. Something industrial,
and revolutionary, despite the dry
and interspersed tooth
picks and dry cloth-
like stamped napkins and dead territories
crossable with grand motivation, might
enliven everything. The fingers
of the peasants might grow fewer
for a while, but when it all
grows to fruition (such an unfortunate word,
too literal to live well here)
a brightness of diverse production
clothing the elders and others
cloned or stainless shining hands
supplied again, the damage
remembered with nostalgia, a bright web
of radio and quick trade
connecting all and moving
what we need
to a synchopated rhythmn.
