Never Mind the Beasts

There is a special insomnia
in this hall of lizards
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I’ve allocated
a minddump on
these
two tonic
bones
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when my head falls
off someone
else’s
will turn
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perhaps this will lead
to some small discovery
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I love small nose
piercings

I love small
nose piercings
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this is your own
private
sound-
track
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this is making my head
rattle

this is goofier than
the bland
American grain
that fills my clunky
universe
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presently I am
losing
my marbles
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WANTED
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tiny
changes
that hurt
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we’ve left YOU
to dry out
in the morning sun
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this doesn’t do
me any good

the response
is to break
into a radical force
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today I paint
with the whispers

that ended
the Roman empire