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March 8, 2004
suburban Seattle, Washington

     FUTURE
      ROAD
    EXTENSION

says the sign at the end of the street
whence my brother is moving
where the woods begin

where the woods end

[there are] ferns and moss and
rotting wood under the trees

in the great wet north by Puget Sound

I find an open swath following power lines
dirt road tracks lead me on

cries of birds and insects and frogs
all around me

until comes a motorcycle

"67 degrees of miracle weather"
I brought it north from Tijuana

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TIME TO GO PACK UP HIS HOUSE he was supposed to have done all this already
and so was SHE

           h h h h m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m   ?  ?    ?       ?


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BINGE & PURGE


empty bay leaves jar in the cupboard
among a hundred other half-used
or unused spices     multiply
six bags of cinnamon sticks, unopened

no, no, no, I said, take the
Easter stuff south - if you don't
she'll just go out and buy more
to fill up another damn house

better be glad she won't read
this web log here no no no

No NO don't throw that away!
Can't you see?  It's I-AM an original
left-over pie pan from Merry Kalendars!

neatly cleaned and tucked away besides
ten zillion never-used tupperware plastic
puke pots and pair of shiny mini-pot-pie tins
so carefully scrubbed clean and saved and and and

A A A A A A A                 a a a a a a a   
 they  binge                    I  purge

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not apo - strophe remember ?

copyright 2004 daniel charles thomas
better be glad HE won't read it either
CAT - Ass - strophe

okei bai see you in Tijuana next week...................