Uptake
Pretend that Dick Cheney took control of everything 42 years ago by beating Kissinger at rousing game of “quarters” and know that to our credit, it took him several more decades to convince us to ban straws in a few cities.
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Nation Buildings
Turn David Letterman’s ranch
into one Walmart, two Whole Foods and six Five Guys,
then go to Winthrop and do it again.
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Gernalisms During the Post-Army Anthrax Attacks
the distractions kill
easier now
that the netflix entertains us from what i can’t remember still again also
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Poof
The last poet struggles to paint the scene of the last rainforest burning for no one remaining even as another episode of Grey’s Anatomy plays and still, somehow, the last Debra Messing is able to leave a last comment blaming all the grammaring on Susan Sarandon.
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Gone THING Gone
Got zero dental.
Healthcare is affordable and working great
every other place that we bomb.
Our bulletproof back-to-school backpacks also now come in varying shades of dead.
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War During microbeer Time
Cornell on my radio gently screaming at the background.
I’m still here,
thinking of you near post-Bremerton.
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Like a Wyland Bridge Over V-Pod Waters: The Sermon
And when the mountain goats fly over the Sound to some other gated community hills above the hubris, among the detritus…Wyland will return! to begin again his mural…his mural of the great dying fish (mammal!) on a hotel wall that is located…just downwind of the latest raw sewage spill equaling 3 million gallons…near! the poisoned Duwamish, near! the PFAS, near! the forever-wars, near! the runoff of something like 6 million Puget Sounders with a nasty pumpkin spice N’ legal heroin problem.
Doll steak.
Test meat.
Pass the plate.
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