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Logic

It was a poem

men took because it said ovary

didn’t take my

political poems

they took the one that said ovary

Are you sure it was because it

           said ovary?

Yes, for them that’s logical.

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Destroy another

          city

What

else

is war for? So

you’ll go down

each of you does. dies in

                           whirlwind

each of you who does, dies

          paying

for the pain you experience

         Just that

and nothing is established

Because I am a woman

Cutting as many cords

as tie you to me. this isn’t

           anarchy

it isn’t anything you

           could name

You’re still here

without ties?

because they were logical.

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Dance little asshole dance

oh he gets elected, like a Calvinist

He says, I have these guts

Men, I have these guts.

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Having dedicated whole

regions to the destruction

          you inspire, the

logic will be to go on doing it

doing it. Having proceeded by

the logic

         of your per-

sonal vaccuum

you will perceive your continued

          lightlessness

as an excuse to go on. having

gone on

as you have. And so one continues.

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Lead the boy out of

          the building on fire

his head twisted

          upwards

all fucked

What else is there to

       know if

one has gotten

twisted up

all fucked

he is a screaming fire

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In the explanations

of our lives’ experience

they’ve left out this wild moment

the long mirror on the right-hand wall of the

corridor suddenly shattered

I can’t see myself anymore.

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I repeat that I am not frightened

          and why not

I don’t know

what my reactions

are supposed to be.

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        “Please tell me something

with which I’m familiar.”

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