Caribou
To Be Not Stupid
Intimator, I haven’t you, I have saved
us from Spokane and Reno, back of the bare
ocean, the wherewithal behind all the,
and the midway, which did exist
a secular Jew, a loss lacking as luck would
have, as luck would have it.
Sober mountain, leaf through the mesh
tell a blue, tall enough on Keefer
a wheel’s spoke from all I could,
I could tongue a cherished tongue
be a meal in being
and knowing
the English brew that hurt me
lewder Christ that blew beneath me
Intimidator, I can’t with you, I
keep kittenish in mind.
Toilet sugar-root, poetry-beet
I do poetry poetry comes with me
it comes first
I got more interesting now
I’m practically, smelling marriageable,
not-guilty, dyed a la carte live al fresco on
a sea of Skittles, transplanted away from
him & him, creased in the crowds
shopping in Cambridge, Yimmy Yayo
Bebe Zeva, now I am your waitress now
What do you think of that, or feel.
Love lovely weather permitting
love I liken to a tree of your name as your
face as your face will admit
a galactic avoidance, tending everywhere
what happened to you?
where are, and how
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