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blue lotus
the eucalyptus is also called the blue gum blue is either the rarest or the commonest color in nature on the leaf of the lotus I beheld a drop of dew which was a drop of glue on cut fabric verisimilitude my one pleasure truth-seeming was easier to get into cuz it was everywhere like the sky in its common blue britches like the sea in its common denim was there really any lotus there in the flying-j rest stop or atop my head blossoming into a thousand petals? the cock crowed all night while we were in the tipi confused we thought by the full moon later a coyote howled, self-satisfied as its snack had announced itself the leaves of the gum are like the water that surrounds a melting glacier blue is my favorite color but I’m not unusual in that way. it sells magazines & jeans. we all live in the uncanny valley common as star-stuff I don’t care if you love me there were 60-ft waves in kaua‘i today my blood’s blue in its veins and I look good in my jeans blue like the sea and blue like my people in the sea