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cleaned my place the other day
first time in ten years
and found 100 rejected poems:
fastened them all to a clipboard
much bad reading.
 
now I will clean their teeth
fill their cavities
give them eye and ear examinations
weigh them
offer blood transfusions
then send them out again into the
sick world of posey.
either that
or I must burn down your cities,
rape your women,
murder your men,
enslave your children.
 
every time I clean my room
the world trembles in the balance.
that’s why I only do it once every
ten years.
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