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BETTER WAIT Electric radiators have come on to my waking Still in my night clothes Gus admires my matching Tolerates some belly snuggles but he is all claws Defining his boundaries and looking down at his empty breakfast dish that I leave empty this is a dead loss for a poem no matter How much

TOES The big toe is called a toe not a fancy name like thumb which, I suppose is also a finger of which I have the requisite number ten of course, with a ring on my ring finger calling out my marital status in a fine textured tungsten my wife has two in different sizes

STARTLE Sideways, damn My eyes open Ceiling not overhead but under my bed My flight flips frightens No soul no soul no soul Danger danger danger We taught our children Not to come near the stovetop. Elements cook porridge Hot hot hot! Our cat reaches for my arm “Please please may I have More books

OPPOSABLE THUMBS I’m losing my grip. there was a boy in grade school who could bend his thumbs all the way back to the bottom of his wrist, we said he was double jointed. But always looked a little gross to me I prefer my bones to be where they need to be to make

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IMAGINE THIS BLANK PAGE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE. WRITE OR DON’T WRITE THIS BLANK PAGE IS YOURS. NO SUBMISSION, NO ENTRY FEES WRITING IS FREE, TO YOU AND TO ME.                                         ~

My shoulder replacement is a success. I must be careful not to overuse it, lift something heavy and I’ll lose it.  My surgeon said he would look at my right shoulder in January when he looks at the left for the final oohs and aaashhs.  The cleaner is cleaning.   I am waiting for:  The

1. I should get a pail to  carry random thoughts  Yes that’s more like it. If I had a pal I could carry my head in it but only when it is too heavy for my cervical spine. so most of the time.   2. I forbid any talk about Liza. I forbid any talk

EROS HOTEL   Desk Clerk/Gatekeper 1. St. Augustine/with ghost of Euripides 2. Richard III 3. Menno Simons 4. Catherine the Great 5. Ludwig Van Beethoven 6. Queen Victoria 7. Sigmund Freud/with Richard Dehmel 8. Samuel Beckett  

DREAM This is still kind of loopy but I’ll put it in my dreams section on my website. Last night I dreamed of forgetting my car. I was driving and needed to park quickly. The parking lot changing from U of M to the downtown flat lots while I went to meetings. I overstayed my