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Down Highway 74
Down Highway 74
On the way back from Charlotte
there is a dead girl draped across the grass
beside the highway. She swarms
with policemen and one or two paramedics
who, for some reason, still have not
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Issue #1: “The Secret Origins of YOUNG MAN!”
Issue #1: “The Secret Origins of YOUNG MAN!”
Country house. Old. Gray. Almost a shanty.
Short and rotund, Mother works in small herb garden.
Her skin is dark. Her hair in a pony tail. Her hands dirty.
It is Mother’s Day and Young Man is not at home
when the blood vessel in his mother’s head falls in
on itself. Boxers call it “punch drunk”—
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All Hallow’s City
All Hallow’s City
In the city of black steel
I met a well-meaning child
dressed as the devil, pretending
to fly. I’d call him a paper tiger
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At Breakfast
At Breakfast
(The Thundergod’s Daughter)
On television, the weatherman predicts
rain over L.A.
because last night I orgasmed
under Brad Pitt—
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