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14 Collage Sonnets (after Ted Berrigan)

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John Ruskin got stoned in Venice my balls are blue earths

Ogden Nash blew Bennett Cerf a kiss before I die

it's the paradigm, stupid St.Thomas Kuhnalini ring dem bells

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SONNET #13: When the Drones Come

clowns killing clowns floppy ambivalences of power

amino acid signature strikes change your Rorschach now

a cheap TransubsTanTiaTion money shots, then money screams

the room full of mousetraps snapping up the domino's pizza

duck-rabbits are everywhere drooling why?

Monsanto's a concept by which we'll measure our pain (say it again)

and cluster bombs willy-willies of razor wire Turn It Inà "ž

Christ, bin Laden was tall! The Zion Train is coming

oak is the strongest wood for arks, now bark Magellan's adrenaline sea

riding the Gravy Train the dogs refuse alas poor Hamlet, I knew him well

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