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My Street
a
six inch man walking through a city of 12 foot doors
the music is sliced and pasted together so I cant make out
a beat , how
many different languages
or is the sound inside me, as if im buried in the street and
reading the
pressure waves
against my extended flesh, hearing the mewling stars
in a world where we can jump out of airplanes and usually
survive
in our church we become adults by having a rib removed, biting
a fruit
from a forgotten time or planet and standing so close to another
for
half a day our faces stick together and change
like forested hills turned into suburbs
Give thanks for instant fire, for two thousand songs in a
pocket,
my car will tell me when to turn, its always summer in the
produce section
today im the doctor, yesterday I was the machine that fills
the plastic
bottles with water,
tomorrow morning the bathroom will be in the other direction,
Ill get
out of bed
and sink through the floor into a bus 10 seats wide
like pouring a gallon of liquid into a square foot of ground
and feeling
no moisture, seeing no wet.
the clouds have been replaced with condominiums
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