though the team was broken up we still hoped that somehow we would triumph over the league of loners though we were weak and needed supplies and spicy food with which to regain our competitive edge and as the day finished drawing obscene doodles in the clouds through the gaps in the tall buildings we occasionally glimpsed the blimps of our enemy scanning for weaknesses to exploit though this all feels like ancient history since the hastily written but iron-clad armistice ushered in the new golden age no one really wanted
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Remember to
Forget what you know sit softly
lulled by the sound of hundreds of
pens simultaneously writing down
your mistakes think of clouds
over that chasm you love
Forget the ad that is following you
keep sharpening your teeth into points
we’ll see if we can find a knife and a few
layers of breathable fabric as you
start off stinging wind your boot brittle
grass bright crunch beneath
Forget it and start again don’t think of pathogens
the tickle in your throat give the pills a chance
outside flashes of red flowers one ant
carries his scrap of stone down into the dark
one road
out
when clouds
lift the
sharp mountain
cotton candy clouds to open my fist I whisper a wish
above the clouds maybe it’s all juvenilia
the newscaster’s hands gathering clouds
autumn clouds
only a picture
of her dog
reluctant to hyphenate the clouds of August
have I read this before smoke from a chimney clouds from the sky
no one looking I still try to push the clouds