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drip
Or Does It Explode?
Chasing Pidgeons
The Tale of Common Things
The Image Repressed
To, Too
Cassandra Calling
Unearth
Untitled
Mr. Kahlo’s Garden
Four Days in the South of
                            France: C’est Bon
Gardening
About Karen
Waltz With Me On
                    Her Scattered Bouquet
Snapple
Now I Kind of Understand That
    One By William Carlos Williams
Jack
Building Movement
Wet Dream
The Procession

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Inside Back Cover:
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Untitled

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drip

            Christopher Longo

 

 

it

wasn’t

like anything—

not really anyway

and I wonder why

nothing since or before

has left anything close to

the same impression and why

it’s so hard to give voice to the

subject but I guess it can’t hurt to

try; it was like the first drag at the

end of a too-long day or maybe like

fingernails on the nape of one’s neck:

soothing but not sleep-inducing merely

enough touch for a much better day than

without it I suppose—or maybe not actually;

OK wait this is better: it was like a tongue’s

tip dipped downward and dripping wet into

my ear or an erection on the subway while

reading about oil and death and suchlike

or something, because it surprised as

well as sated and that’s something

not many chocolate ice cream

cones are able to do,

right?

  

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