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that is, of course, too many books
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/acolyteroad
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somewhat recent:
~
[language]
word gets around
the schoolyard
pretty quick
that my father
drove his body
off a cliff
so god
would have a nail
hot enough
to touch.
I have a tooth
can make it
snow.
~
[small ones]
loss goes unnoticed.
I made for you
a scarecrow
from the textbook
violence
of a midwestern
poltergeist
as lightning
took a step
from the baby
I crawled
beside.
be
not memorably
young.
~
[mothership]
strays
in orange
bless
the brains
they bless
the trash…
–
what nothing
you haven’t
seen
–
the hand-me-down
travel
sickness
that cocoons
in some
what cottons
to others
–
dryness
the money
of angels
~
[the end of backstory]
he drops a knife in her lap and calls her a butcher. it is beyond cute
the way his stomach
becomes
a third
fist. her cigarette
is a portal
takes her
to the baby
can suck
the air
from a room.
kingsoftrain 
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