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138 Building a Vessel I damaged the floodgates and poked holes in the ark | how cataclysmic the saltwater | stinging my chapped lips | my hair tangled coaxial cables knotted with kelp | who cares about me is a jury-rigged question | what about me is a concern for cus- tomer care | today is so full of shit like an office building | all in flames like a simile | today is stubbed toes and tourettes | my senses turreted | did I forget to load the gundome again | I can give you a tour of how a gun goes off | and vomits ink car- tridges | I’m limited like a balding pattern | I emptied my torte of civil wrongdoings | put chocolate on trial for killing my dog | from a giant sandalwood block I carved all the animals | neglected to make two of each | does anyone have a pho- tocopier | today is noah and dr. scholl’s inserts | today today is billy corgan and ice cream men | publishing the new and collected poems for our century | today is the greatest cluster- fuck of probability that someone will collapse from exhaustion | someone will blow their brains out | with a staplegun | I’m sorry for swearing like the sale of the century | our century of self-conscious decades | I’m not used to being a bright shade of magenta | I’m not used to being lipstick you don’t see | smudged on your teeth -Stephen Danos

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