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Rimbaud is off in the corner making a fresh pot of coffee
all the coffee is fresh here
Rimbaud is off in the corner making a pot of coffee
yesterday i saw an old friend and apologized for my insensitivity
not in that order
i'd like to go see the tree that's kept its leaves despite the chill
but i don't want to seem a tourist
in the end it will be, was, my lack of urgency
Doris Day had, has, something to say, maybe
my guess is as good as yours, simply not as available
won't commit suicide so as not to look foolish when it goes on clearance
that was a quarter-truth half-metaphor
that was facetious
but nothing is, to stoics
facetious, that is
was, i should have said
but it wasn't, won't
cigarettes are a metaphor for life, not death
and i don't look like that guy at all
i'm short a quarter now, then