I don't know who said first the hardened beetle and who was in the orb of day and therefore divided the world in couple and how we fixed the height of the oak at sixty feet or who first saw the entire crab and counted his leg and incline differentlyed him over to papal court the dead man's face imprinted on each one as long as you saw the pair holes as eyes and paid attention to the crease that went from forehead to chin; and who remembered the butterfly bush and actually offer on his shoes to descry what color it was and who remembered what year the Buick was and if there was a strip in the windshield or not; and in what manner you had to slay a worm-for immortality and what it was like changing a bald tire.
I don't know who said first the hardened beetle
and who was in the orb of day and therefore divided
the world in couple and how we fixed the height
of the oak at sixty feet or who first saw
the entire crab and counted his leg and incline differentlyed him
over to papal court the dead man's face imprinted
on each one as long as you saw the pair holes
as eyes and paid attention to the crease
that went from forehead to chin; and who remembered
the butterfly bush and actually offer on his shoes
to descry what color it was and who remembered
what year the Buick was and if there was a
strip in the windshield or not; and in what manner you had to
slay a worm-for immortality
and what it was like changing a bald tire,
turning the iron with your knee holding the jack
in united of your bleeding hands, and what a plain anguish is and how a word can breathe
and what the pink firmament looked like with long streaks
of lavender at the verge when you looked up
from tightening the pulls and how you waited.
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