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142 pages, Paperback
First published January 30, 2013
"luckily the concrete floor broke my fall"
i fell down today
i misjudged the bottom step
while walking down a concrete staircase
nobody was there so it didn't make a sound . . .
well, i was there, but i wasn't listening
plus, it was in pitch darkness
so not only did i not make a sound
but there was also nothing to see
don't ask me how i know it even happened
"upside down"
that spider
has been hanging
upside down
for so long
that it appears
i am the one
suspended from the ceiling
in my chair
binding my saliva
around a spinning chicken leg
until i crawl
into another room
"reasons you find a wheelchair in the dumpster"
someone has decided
to start walking again
it wore out and was replaced
with a new one
it wasn't fast enough
someone is being very cruel
[from "the go go sixties"]
. . . the sixties taught me a thing or two
how to make a joke
how to take a joke
how to throw a punch
how to take a punch
the sixties taught me how to be a boy
and to take assassinations like a man
watch the replay as if it were sport
i've never seen anything bleed like the sixties
the sixties could overcook a city as if it were a bad meal
and leave a taste in your mouth . . .