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Bert Meyers

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A suburb of coffee cups; …

Bert Meyers

Birds drip from the trees. …

Bert Meyers

See how the moon follows us? …

Bert Meyers

ocean …

Bert Meyers

My father was a tender man …

Bert Meyers

I …

Bert Meyers

The world’s largest ashtray, …

Bert Meyers

I looked for you at the cemetery. …

Bert Meyers

Go to sleep my daughter …

Bert Meyers

People go home …

Bert Meyers

I earn a living …

Bert Meyers

Stars climb girders of light. …

Bert Meyers

One girl in a red dress leaves the shopping center with empty hands: and you believe in the future—you’ve seen a drop of blood flee from the luminous cells of a corpse. …

Bert Meyers

The dark birds came, …

Bert Meyers

Rabbi of condiments, …

Bert Meyers

There he sat among them …

Bert Meyers

These days, everything’s bad. …

Bert Meyers

When I ask for a hand, …

Bert Meyers

I'm still here, in a skin …

Bert Meyers

I feel like the elephant …

Bert Meyers

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