Splinters – haiku and other animals

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but when we came home we felt awkward contesting the changes in the living arrangement since over in what we called the valley a whole industry had sprung up centered on that idea so for awhile we played along

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sorry to bother you again with this amazing opportunity but those sharp teeth are starting to yellow and with back-to-school shopping about to get underway you’ll be kicking yourself later in either case

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though it swings this way twice a day few have so much as caught a whiff of its fur that shines with the earth’s last greasy riches

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the right eye, even after graduation, and at the start of a successful career, produces worms

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those bells and stickers by which we measure our optimal optional pursuits as the waters rise once more

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those early days under the sea when we went from five eyes to three to just the pair and slowly painfully learned to breathe the poison air

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and the streak of color sometimes seen as the day draws in unfolds perhaps a human sense of something just beyond the tongue, which, deep in the gray folds

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the air going out of my best-made delusion I so wanted to see grow up and take its place in the museum of medical atrocities

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Sunday afternoon while light won’t stop streaming past the sudden silence of unbroken bare trees and what apologies to make while the ink dries and the thinking machines reset in the year of our lady redacted

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and I never learned what came next though I looked over the catalogs religiously with desire ever rising through the desert I must walk