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Left to our own voices
hammer or mallet
tin sheers aluminum whispers
					             			Everyone stealing teenagers
                                                                    it happened in the 
hospital
				                                     then left out when played 	
passionately
					                                 the sense of extremity
					                                 as a target

A band of head phones
on the counter enabling
again nothing was said
admitting no sadness
as weakness
following rock and roll as
a contemporary theological discourse

					                                  Growing through the roof
				                                      braces in the afternoon 
					                                  orange leaders
					                                  don’t work in underwater
					                                  crime schools with
					                                  a list of frightening errands

Lashed to a source
		                      Everything that’s true

Paved to a purpose
fax the eyes in fox gloves
toes tucked in new boots stomping
marble into marble leaf
eye sky machine puffing
oxygen on almost every corner


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