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and ask them where it all went wrong                      or hold them by the shoulders

and bore into their eyes, rattling off            the top ten best reasons to stay alive
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i would like for my tools to stay the same

          no more prions folded into lurid shapes

          no glistening eyes in the fuggy dark
just yesterday i threw up my breakfast

          and nudged it down the drain with my foot

these small indignities…                       ah!

          so much for the larrikin wastes, so much

          for the good times!!!
i have always meant

to hold tight to life

it is just that sometimes
it is just that sometimes there are only ten things

to live for, or less
we walk our ways

through the burning forest, left alone

          with charcoal prints

          and the fluting of houseless birds