Goldfish
Once, I killed a fish.
More than once, if you count
the 22 goldfish I accidentally
overfed before the ick took over,
Katherine’s Coffeehouse
Sometimes, this is all I need
Sometimes, this is all I need:To sit, secure, with my palm on the throatof day. Press lightly on its pulse.Breathe
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Centric
favoring neither leg, nor whip, nor the hushof cajole (control)simply a horse whinny to make a country better than it
Why (Again) I Will Not Burn the Flag
It begins with, “Don’t you believe in company loyalty?”
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Working Order
We clutch a bit
now for sleep
through the night,
choose sharper tipped
verbs, phrases,
questions of status
quo, but are handed
cliches
Why I Will Not Burn the Flag – Author’s Note on 4th of July
It’s complicated, really, it began so long ago,
while bent over a bin of gourmet ice cream, scooping
it out for a customer: “Don’t you believe in company
loyalty?” And I had to tell him, no. “I am not loyal
to groups,” I said. “I am loyal to people.”
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