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Jerry McGuire
A World In Parts


Frenchy the burdensome parasite. Anthrax
my ass. Asterisk beside a bad year, then
beside all the years. Toodles, you minx.
After the war, so many messages, best dumped,
best forwarded to strangers. To realize
that millions of people, bone-ignorant,
know what a phalange is, and I don’t.
Absorption the disease we all die from,
or at least die with. Uncanny likeness,
the moon. Unlikely loon in the can.
Uncool the muck in the hand, mule
in the cockup, man lustlacking, unknown,
as everything runs down and ultimately out,
even syllables, thanks be to their odd
pincers in congenial places. Meager bitch,
reason, bugger meat. Brisk case-sensitive
murder. Frisky agencies at parade rest,
assault trifles. And cheer the hapless
astronauts, asterisks in space.


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