attached to (black and pink)

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sneakers, black and pink

with white laces, slink

sexily across the scratched

umber hardwood floor;

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sneakers attached to

vigorous feet who

sensually bend and glide —

strides of an angel.

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feet are Sunflower’s;

she has Sunflower sneakers.

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GJK

23APR17

[mutant sonnetized haiku]

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with apologies to J.R.R.T.

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the immortal Robert Jordan is

my best dead friend.

regarding fantastical pantheons

i must

insist

that he

is profoundly supreme

(and almost entirely inimitable)

throughout all illimitable, incomprehensible time.

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GJK

12APR17

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4.8.2017

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human  leash  canine

tethered spirits ambulate

humans  chains  corpses

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GJK

4APR17

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(yes this is a protest poem yes this means stop the war,

stop the violence without and within)

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the English language is a gibbering imbecile

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fire up the machine and start

going down

the lists

the scribbled notes

on envelopes

and matchbooks,

index cards

and torn-off portions

of cigarette packages

grab it all

throw it in a pile

on the musty couch cushion

and go

without thought

glancing thru the detritus

of last week, last month,

maybe even last year.

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and don’t forget to include

today’s list encoded upon your palm,

the marker strokes barely legible

thru the grime and sweat

of the day’s contortions

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a smeared, bleary reminder

that you are alive.

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go thru it all

for your own sake

(to slake that ephemeral thirst)

you are a writer

and you matter,

even though your tools

are puny, pathetic

and downright stupid.

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A thru Z

in every conceivable combination

and permutation in not nearly enough

to express what you feel.

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but you try.

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you are almost as stubborn

as me.

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GJK 5APR17

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The 1st Step, or, God’s Love

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WRITTEN BY

ANDREW LARSEN

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If we use we’re going
2 die!  No need 2 cry,
(I didn’t make this up!)  Go
2 a meeting, “reach out!”  Call
someone.  (Whatever it takes!)
2 not pick up, call Sally
even though he’s a guy!
(Whatever it takes!)  Whatever
it takes!  When we STAY
ALIVE it helps the newcomer.
It would B a bummer IF WE
WEREN’T there 4 them, wouldn’t
it B the same as killing them?
Upon this morbid reflection,
it is worth the clean
connection.  Clean 4 another
day.  It’s good 2 B OKAY,
it’s good to be OK.

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by

Andrew Larsen

24JULY2016

Menominee, MI

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