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If Wishing Made It So

I am the tallest sprinkler of parabolic flow.
I keep a fist in each of my fingers.
I can make a wolf with my hands and a lamp on a wall
as big as Iowa.
I selected from a catalog of days this sunny ha.
I need only a thimble of plutonium to power my bark.
I got to third base with the lake on our first date.
Tongue and feeling her up and waves
lapping at my pulled pork.
I say go and you go and I say stay and you remain
in the position of "I am a teapot" or whatever it is you do
with your body in the deep sorrow of not being my body.
I take a helicopter to work to rest my submarine.
I am twenty-eight heads wired in parallel with double-pull
double-throw switches.
I aren't so required to with words know one from if it quacks
like a tractor then plow.
Every three seconds, workmen staple different paintings
to my eyes of wonderful trees and tall girls
on the horizon waving suckle-me breasts.
All it takes to make it to the parade is the gumption
to put one boot on one genital at a time.
Each of us wakes equally with gunk in our eyes
of silver mostly.
You can be anything I want if I try you hard enough.
What a life.
Did I tell you my middle name is the same as the president's
first name?
Therefore the center of, the creamy goodness of, some spleen of me
or intestine is president.
I hold these truths to be self-evident.
That my one mistake was to say I was wrong about the fire
because look at all the smores everything burning down
led to.
Yum.

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