April 10, 2019 / barton smock

spiritual correctives

I don’t have time
to be smart
but everyone
in this movie
thinks a snowglobe
is a moth
on fire

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for years I thought the pain I was eating came to my mouth in a dream

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argument for there is: were it otherwise,
we’d both be the child of two rotting forms

argument for there is no: a country dog
nodding headcounts
to a family
of sticks

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