1. today is my birthday
birthday grapes and grape flavor
the language of the birthday foot
birthday gorilla
birthday griffin
birthday eye
and the language of the higher world
birthday plank and birthday plunk
birthday cat looking
birthday jack of hearts is a smeech of woo
birthday cake
to answer the phone
we see the birthday clouds
the birthday big breakfast deal is what I am going for
birthday breakfast burrito
to jaw at earth all night when we breakfast the burrito jams
birthday bonus and a big bag of fries
birthday bats and batman
birthday box of potatoes
way out in arizona earth
birthday burd in on the sky scene
up there for long and wide smiles on his face for all to see
rest assured, birthday burd
birthday brain is all over the day with thank yous and thank you
birthday bag of bugs
birthday bison
birthday bones in a bag
birthday bop is hard and soft like rain
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2. poetry writing once there is a plum in the binding
the people demanded a new color for the palette
this is the ghost red of the famous blues
one third of the buildings are ghost red now
something growls at the sun as the numbers are flashing
beetle tracks
the outer space clouds
the plaidness of the duck will be on display
a serious foam
earth is a cuddly egg
earth is the tragic image of the surfing cow or crow
why is a burd in a box when we have the sky
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3. release the parrots
this is the ticky typing of writing a new poem
in a time when there are no denim hand gloves
that parched star is an old fixture
can you hear the sun with your mind
you know earth as the wet planet but no more
all of the water evaporated and we are here live with the heat
the plumber with emotional socks
not in a sky lock because of the verisimilitude
the union of onion burds
the unabashed specialists
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4. the clean galaxy is the westernmost point of the starfish cavalcade
it’s a lot better than the old planet
do you remember
it was dark and smoky and the water tasted like metal
is that the new earth in the telescope
the synonym of the sphered phrase now
when I am speaking of the sun I will wear this green headdress
to control the world using nakedness
leonard the speed phrase now
power’s on at the rec center this morning
evidence of pie
that last feeling was a cloud passing over
it will be gone in a few seconds
at the convenience store they sell bait and cookies
the latest of the noon bugs to be excavated by the anthropologists
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5. a rooster in the dark
monsters like milk and they drink lots of it
here is a glass would you like to try it
maybe you’re a monster like me
because of the finite mathematics
eat the brain in the jar in a relaxed fur gravy
burd money is on top of the stove
one of the laser rays is out of phase
listening to the astronomical ghosts of the space trip
you need to see the sunshine soon
the start of the water where it really gets wet
earth rips it to the gap in left
I have it here in the back where it is cool
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6. starfire deluge
first day of spring today
plugged into the grid of vowel sounds
& we see in the dark don’t we
cluck huh was one up
to name a denver day
positive boxing & so long to the coxwells
approximately now a nova
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7. populace and population
in the telescope tomorrow is a world of hope
the last roscoe feather for telling a pear to shed its skin
to make certain that the words are in this order
fathom of knock the counter shire with ammonia balloons
the spiral burd of corking the normal holes in the ground
ebbing and flowing with the lasers and the outlaw earth
can’t stop typing with the poetry machine
carbon fractions
named for the founder of the fish restaurant
when nothing becomes the numb
the number and the numbest
a fish in the blue sky
that ghost word of the poem
