apples, oranged
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the pond begins to lake, man
made square rilling toward a shore
line, reedy and full of birds.

on the radio they talk about morals.
two hundred plus dead in the new gulag.
the opposition apologizes
for using the word. no words
for the dead. only numbers.

exponentially, the reeds grow.
sorries multiply. the one is nature reclaming
herself. the other, a catacomb for freedom.



Unregistered User
(6/13/05 4:56 pm)
Reply afternoon email to myself vol v
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cut the expectations so long ago



this is the day:
keys lost or thrown away
out for lunch at 4 then step
back into displacement

l these voices these languages
were do they come from. it sounds like
thai--good to eat, giverish for the ears.

i'm sorry, i'm not sorry your liscence may be
either suspended or revoked or even
neither. if you haven't carried
insurance for a while, expect to pay thru
our rates are the best! the best i tell you you can even
make a low low down
low down down

called the state. well, not disappointment
with no expectations there are no dis
appearances. mj not guilty on all charges.
not guilty. hoooray for the system.




grayghost
Unregistered User
(6/14/05 4:28 am)
Reply from my experience
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systems mostly suck because they are invoked as method of bullying control when the only control worth anything comes from within

it is a good thing days are divided by stretches of sleep or we could not bear them back to back

workerb
Unregistered User
(6/14/05 5:15 pm)
Reply nono sense
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why don't presidents fight the war
why do we always send the poor
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been singing this all day and
time walks by in a kelly green work
shirt bussing the aisles for marketing
strategies. everything done yesterday

needs done again. wrong parts.
at the end of it, there's the therapy session
where in all the world there's some answers
that fist thru the workaday.
choice . that's the thing that freezes.

workerb
Unregistered User
(6/15/05 8:27 pm)
Reply double tryptich cobbled on a lazy boy
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what? the roses are blooming
and you won't cut them? HR takes
her robobbing for apples and seven minutes
then lays down the letter of the law.
no holiday pay for airin. who walks.
pink shoes and all.

jintana stresses about: eight years from now.
what good is that? either we'll be here or
we won't. cat scans and ekgs aside
there's not a whole lot you can do about it.

teresa tries to get me back in the dream
but it's become sullied with all these nitrogen
explosions. radon stinking up the news, shredding
the attic and grandma's best parthenon
with absolutely no guarantee of return.

then there's the double bed issue.
used and the lice have a field day.
new and the mites can develop the property
at will. or won't. and i won't. i mean it.

did i mention the smells? middle of
summer and chemicals.point to
a new breed morphing.
don't bite the finger, you might need it for the dna.

plain talk: HR is subject of debate now. is she
or isn't she? i tell them it's all about power.
she thrives on it. begin to steal a line from an ex
and she's there with the intellectual property rights.
ready to go to court on an article. one goddamn article.

make mine "a". not the. more
general. squirrely. even. can't quite
pin it on a singular or a plural.
a mountain range. a cannibal. a note
for the next in line, holding two wires
and an insulating yawn.