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Leaving The Art Museum

deep in the woods

Three Dead Flies

10 second life drawings

'Zines: On Paper, Off The Record

$100,000 climaxing
several times (a review)


nuclear, familiar

undone by circumstance

underneath the down

breathlessly gathering
moss


pending streetnoise - [poem]
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vocals, flute, keyboard -
   Rick Ollman
produced & engineered -
   Harvey Taylor


thoughtful his middle name
 
Three Dead Flies

Three dead flies
saved in a plastic bag
to show the exterminator

sprayed not swatted
to preserve their looks.

One striped one
may be a different species.

I walk out into
the cool fresh evening
to the parking lot
with death on my mind.

Nothing unusual there
just existence and essence
at the same time…

let it be
let it come
let me know.

Two blocks later
turning the corner
onto snowmelt pavement

an opossum neatly dodges
my left front tire only
to be squashed by the right.

Four blocks more
and I turn back
to confirm what I felt

the body
still in the road
not playing.

All these signs and omens
may mean something.
Let me know.


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