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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