To detail multitudes we use the distance between brow and lip To detail multitudes we zoom To detail multitudes you count arrange by height I weigh To detail multitudes we think in colour shade pallor age To detail multitudes I squint I size up You recall who was standing where and in what footwear I think in the key of squeals and groans.
I call in my version of events I try to be specific and unflinching I report You offer as much information as you possibly can for the good of all concerned To secure a positive outcome we think it through in private and then visit their website You swallow your pride and fess up You feel you should You want to live with yourself after all To sort out whose hands held the weapon you try pantomime in your backyard.
I push you into the fence and you cry uncle.
I throw the glove at your knee You lose You need to get down to the station in haste Go now so details stay crisp persist in sequence Leap Let your conscience breathe sleep get some shut-eye First thing in the morning get dressed Something comfortable yet clean Skip coffee.
Show up at the front desk Simply say I want to help as much as I can begin to detail multitudes We do the deed to redeem Clarify my allegiance You were mistaken it was a really fun night Once is enough suffice will have to
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When you’re sick with fear you’re never sick with, or, You’re sick with fear you’re never sick, or, Sick with fear you’re never, or, With fear you’re, or, Fear is my motherfuckin best ‘friend,’ jks
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THE FITFUL EVENTS These come to me days and nights and go from me again, / But they are not the Me myself. – WW
We drive for half hour come to barns with cows a merry go round. En route we’d passed a falls. Boats bobbed. We opted to stop. You extracted basket from trunk unpacked picnic. Ants gushed out small hill near my sandal. I squished many torsos. Little legs wafting eyelashes ephemeral loss. Another roadtrip we sought RV lot. You hoped to trade up. I came along for the french fries. Inside polyurethane surfaces smelled, everything glued shut. I suggested sleeping in there might induce asthma. You looked over my baseball cap nostrils twitching. For once I thought maybe we didn’t make such a good match, me, your straw. About twenty thousand fans made a noise mass riot in action. I couldn’t see players’ faces yet felt seats surge. That was some drum kit, triple drum I think. You’d stuffed toilet paper into ear cavities drank gin cooler waved at me from time to time. Thumbs up. Thumbs way up. Gravel path gradually lost grit soon we rode tar. About two thirds distance across bridge hatchback stalled. You started shrieking at guy next to us, at me. You said I resembled my baby picture. Were not in control of your slurs. I threw up next tried to climb out of car okay taxi happened by. So I solved all that needed solving that evening. You got left for once, ha! A pinkish spring day about 2 p.m. deep nasturtium beds flamed. Sky flickered blue. Kid waddled near with balloon dog. Thing about balloon dogs they don’t last. Two adults hovered tad angry. I figured it was good thing I couldn’t get preggers. You scrape water with paddle simply hack into river pray wooden hull shoots forward slingshot. In quiet bar waiter lights our tea light offers free martinis glass dish cashews. Several women strip writhe. You pass me proxy I sign in extra-winding script tug at my neck until