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Eric Smiarowski

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the buses type from east to west,

then the cars race west to east

always stopping for that hard southern

left

where downtown pages strict rent

flying space only

and bright cracking damsels

thirty foot tall shadows wearing red lipstick,

red short shorts, and red

high heeled shot glasses.


at the table typing about typing about

                verb phrases

                in order to cut through the silence between the screen and

me


after which cigarette will tonight be over?

when will I be through the mine field vices

and finally stand,

purged of my grotesque inadequacies,

alongside another perfect human being?


will we be on a crescent moon overlooking

a maroon volcano sky-

or a coastal cliff in the wind;

blue sea creating moments in front of a backdrop world?


Shit,

could be listening to the voices of human mouths

saying something about me being wrong-

which makes my life the perfect flight of a cigarette butt flung from a

happy hand

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