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Logging Time: East by West - West by East After Rauschenberg: A Retrospective
You Who've Come To The Gate
Improvisations
Short Fiction
To This Country
Your Suicide


Improvisation XXIX

Are you good at puzzles? Cards? Fortunes? Fame?

Their screams was heard all over the neighborhood. It was three AM & no one seemed to mind.

Do you keep your dog muzzled & feed her meat?

The next morning Jacob, the watchman, came out into the light & found them under a green coat.

Do you polish your silver & hide your cash? You know, you never can tell.

He was young, maybe early twenties, she, on the other hand, was older possibly fifty...give or take.

In Luca there's a cellar with a set of golden teeth &...

No one mentioned it until rumors began. Small children were kept inside & no one went for the paper after six.

If you need a ride call Jessica at 1-798-567-1222 or Bobby...in case you're brave enough...


Improvisation XXXIII

If the river rises we'll build your mother a temple where she can make dolls that glow in the dark / whittle teeth from oak & fingers from Mahogany.

When the rains come again we'll be halfway home & weep with the kids who run red in their own blood...for stallions left to rot in fouled stalls.

After the first snow I'll uncoil a length of rope & hang the first man who comes to our house & opens his case & tries to sell the remnants of stars.

When you move to another city I'll bury the dog, crawl under the house & dig for our first song & with a thin heart I'll leave too...

stop on the canyons rim & let loose the doves.

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