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Thursday, October 7, 2021

John Pursch - 1 2 3 4

Claviform Actuals



Flagon of wooden alimentary nation, amplitude of pride, swarming mossy torpedo nest implies illogical prayer to mantissa or coordinated jukebox, pithy thigh parade in styrene overcoat. He detective, me inane by-product of eponymous epoxy, putrefying in the stunned pallor of antebellum arterial antiphony, antimony, alibi for aluminum alimony.

Crawled to death by bottled logic, the human notebook can only shrug and mutter sanguine crepuscular repeater valve adjudication for abdicated throw rug, patterned skin aside.

Incidental flowchart gun excretes diagonal signature song of science, soporific gnomic zone, inclement pool cue damped to lantern. Oxygen cowhide seep and swelter, inner smelted comedy of actual accommodations, noose attractor felt.

Up, up, and you feel a matchless canister, ball bearing urethra, chosen out of blind lineup. Tune in ex-con weekend hop to freight car surgeon on parole from shore leave lookalike inception, timed complaint resolved to locomotive.

Easy there, potentate, don’t want to spring a boxcar straddle. Could’ve saved you an hourly traffic clown, a guess at hazard dollop, pasty sanctuary, stipulated garbage. Claviform actuals ignite an obvious mountain.

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Creased Concavity

Stumped gator guffaws at touchy ownership, releasing fees. Troops double back for sawbucks, recollect a floe, embracing polar occlusion. Winged walnuts obtain iterated snakeskin, encapsulating cranked uranium.

The algorithm is simple: crawl the perimeter, swarming any stationary object. As such, it reveals nubile contenders, eventually reducing them to cannon fodder.

Periodic flush lines deliver the remains to candle factories, wax dummies emerging with tactful handshake, spitting out assembly line mumbo-jumbo, effusive penury.

Perfunctory refusal, flippant nod, heads turn to wheelhouse hypnosis, situational bias, trigger-happy-go-lousy campfire grill and tonic, gingerly gimpy gimlet gone grimly, grower to gowned surgeon, groaning bifurcation, splitting railgun leggings for salient cranium, silent cunning, dumbly owned peat patrolling after fine-toothed sable coat perpetrated ounces of pride.

Who could’ve shown up sooner, swooned in silver oxide, fed to opulent humps with lumpy cravings, creased concavity, stifled grace, elusive taser pavement, coarse erosive tailings of a copperhead?





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Psionic Psoriasis


Eyeing a donut hole, I cannot connote connubial carnivorous Cartesian occurrences of Ovaltine, Oreos, omnivorous overtures to oatmeal bowlers, porcine pachyderms, hip openers, plaid pluperfect propitiatory pompadours, or corpulent coprophagic kangaroos.

Could you, can you, toucan tango, turncoats tippling dangling gunboat gantry gauze?

Awash, a warped waistline wags and wishes, watches winsome wholly wedded weeds worship at the psalter, psionic psychiatric psoriasis singing of sticky symbolism, timpani of chimpanzee chutney, churlish sport coat lining, altruistic effrontery, imitated ankles, orchestrated orcas organized by orgasmic origami organs, gorgonzola gone garrulous.

Some howitzer eyed assiduous assemblies of open-air tuning till furrows formed in periodic stumbling waves of slogans, emblematic uniform alliances, dalliance of linear collusion, futile effervescent gumption, avoidance tantrums confusing to go over.

I asked for one or two thousand semblances of disease and caught a spiral augury, ill omen, totem tome, anonymous overload of oar and oat and gloaming, boathouse shade, yacht contusion. Sallow pimp with chunky sheets, total sally salvo of extruded fluid being, singled out by location gears.


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Silesians Sang Silently

Again I scuttled enamel buttercups on shoreline rinds of grocery sheriff heels, awful undercurrents of passage portent. Dogs can’t tenderize tree bark without speaking, munching on shade.

Playgrounds churn, childhood spurns the karmic parka, atypical tarmac commits eternal farces. Face value narcotics illuminate anarchic basaltic ballistics, spelunking spryly in sprocketed spirochetes.

Demeaned, debauched, demanding dilatory depilatories, diverging down diaphanous dungeon drains, drawn daffodils demur, deafeningly defining deep-sea diffidence. Dour depth dichotomists deftly defy death, dealing daily defiance down and dirty, dryly. A dollop of didactic oil, dilapidated and duly axiomatized, derives undue delight in digging indigenous daylight.

Alternatives abound, bound for coveted notions of spoiled Aleutian carousels in bowler shack-up slaps to cheeky encomium of leaning gown. Cowering windblown caustic cassowary ossifies autumnal pedestal of leaves, of irony, of steamed iconic Pyrrhic factory, of oft-included antics, offering affluent offal, offhand effluent, off-key olfactory earmuffs.

Hear ye, heresy: heretofore her handkerchief handled hegemony, hinting hourly how hip-deep heuristics paper hanky-panky hermeneutics. Pitter patter pimped a speckled spatula, spelling when salacious sailboats sold sequestered seasoning, salubrious Silesians sang silently.

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

John Pursch - Six Pieces

Toucan Comma


Noise governs poignant covert auctioneering blues, copping leafy elderberry skies from filmy planet majesty.


Tournament wisps of token laundry sewing machine inversion slip on shiny tiled floor, dance amid ceramic yoyo petals, and sidle with stentorian banana gantry roller, hanging on for sheepskin lives by the shopping bag’s third phylum. 


Electric blue caterpillars emerge from eyewall insulation, dripping arcane witticism. 


Sombreros erupt in candy apple hurricane emotion, crying for colorblind intelligence agents gone to sausage klinker mutation fits of jealous fulmination at weekly kneading knows of kneecap canopy canapes. 


Jacarandas sing to hired eventualities in ever-present omnidirectional opposites of could and shovel, most and gavel, crosscut shredder terrapin and aardvark donut rheumatism. 


Mooing at tumescent commas, a toucan eats three waiting room attendants in cold palatial ecstasy, shuffling her covered shoes only slightly. 





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2 Corona Kid Calumny


Across the dusk, railroad cars convey cylindrical stamina to needy distance combers, furthering the scan of shaven chin-ups, bicentennial bunting, hit-and-rumple stickball serenades to well-dressed amniotic vending machines, and occidental stereotypes of sleeveless portrayal drift to magazine injunction. 


Correspondence darts to corona kid calumny, iridescent shadowing at offhand remoulade in corked broadcast to perusal lasso altitude. 


When art showers a million bicycle crows with bold illusion profligates, only grooves of tin salad dote on aisle sleep. 


Death clocks in and out before a pasture asks candy quip extrapolation bent to buy a billowing porcine footstool. 


Autographed ottomans float downstream, snagging on a cowering hedgerow, smacking glyphs in cheese curation clavicle compendia of austere keystone burger nosh. 


Influx, intransigence, impetuosity, astringent cringe of noon, of moonshot melancholy monikers, from oddity to klepto tune to aquiline agility to grocery glop to unheard banshee teeter totter ticked a second off the inculcated microfracture. 





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3 Zebra Telescope


Who knolls, who knells, who covets our cousins, misbegotten festering of sheriff’s wheels in carny crazy of cooped-up camper? 


Soften the kneecap within, tenderize the oracular, signify immaculate deception’s feverish eclair with circumvented evening spin of orbital mind, of torqued and fluid pedestal, of long-forgotten brackish wasteland, swampy and swarthy and salubrious. 


Finales flood blue pennant flight to standing wave impasse, impasto contraband, antipasto basilica ringing in the beautiful, the buoyant, a distaff shell of moreover and none withstanding hotter days, lonely echoes contracting to a pinwheel, constructed zebra telescope, arks escaping lamination. 


A cloud, a moon, eternal backdrop of night, ministerial minutia plopped in triplicate on pebbled quotidian walkway, abridged fallopian beauty, erosive tidal fallacy of midday crisis. 





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4 Ablur


Can you see the bottom, endless enamel excretion, exertion in expertly excised ecumenical ladders climbing to ozone calves, ghost canals of icy dental poignancy, appurtenance in corridor of coral whiskey watermelon, whimsy whacked with wherewithal, whodunit, whatsoever, clone what maybe might malign malodorous mists of pylon loons? 


Imperfect imprecation, imprimatur primed for screaming banjos, barbells ballooning into illustrious waiters, wastrels, commingling concomitants, cavorting corduroy-covered calves, colts afoul of horizontal Zion, flavored childhood masterminds plodding through the structured daylight crate. 


Doing slaw, schooling adroitly, leaving two notes unspilt, turnips in tactful enmity, gangly spindle slipstream reproductive verge, auric cone on tinny ease perambulation swell to obviated nectarine. 


Pacing off a hundred yardarms, enthusiastic fronds flicker in the tropical dusk. 


A shot is fired and the turnstiles are off, spinning nightly, ablur but attuned to the cry of innumerable agents of the spiraling yet permanently temporal stream of fictional ontology. 





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5 Escalator Goose


Postal mortuaries send bodies overnight to airframe manufacturers, plying the wooden wings of bipolar frequency addicts with jurisprudence. 


Dearly bedraggled, we are all lathered up and credible, fueled by plausible original copies of copulating cormorants, in-flight dungarees, and kangaroos on holy escapades from pertinent townhome bungee corpse capacity to spellbound summer cramps in mid-absentia. 


Off and to the hefty side of curvaceous, you might opine in purely bovine grapeshot luxury of high canonical atomizer, vapor trails in towline futility. 


A futuristic hobo wipes his clear plastic sleeve in empty-eyed serenity, squashes bugaboos beneath cold fetid cans, and collects affluent appliance vendors for a lunging conversational motif. 


Outer climate polyglots emerge in sooty ties, tacky yet strangely enamored with gelatinous media moguls. 


A prong stars in leading role of lead pipe golden corporation mask, echoing down open highway lounge chair act on carousel of escalator goose. 





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6 Maybe the Sun


Who will, or could, has the stomach for, can tolerate the stench of, is anywhere near able to, is, well, even is? We just need one existent. Who is? 


Maybe the sun. The sun always seems to be up to the task, be it casket bearing, ball playing, impromptu bedwetting, bloodletting, or salivating at the drop of a skirt. Yes, the sun can always be counted on to do whatever it takes to keep things going. The moon is also pretty sturdy and reliable, though its pedigree has been questioned recently by parity freaks who champion a theory of towing: the moon a stowaway, a stone’s throw away from the unspoken, the unspeakable, the unthinkable limit of our experiential mosaic.


If only I could tell you. Or anyone else, for that matter. Well, at least we’re talking now, no more obfuscation. There is, of course, a secret, and code words that can only be spoken under penalty of death or long imprisonment. Three square meals and all, but solitary confinement perhaps. No, I cannot even give you a hint. Simply verboten. You will never say these words. Period. End of briefing. Back to work. 


Now, for you, this is doubly distressing, because you don’t even know what the words are. Of course, you haven’t been briefed, but they are listening to everything, all cell calls, texts, internet lines, emails, posts of every kind. So you could easily say, type, text, or transmit the secret words accidentally, quite randomly, and find yourself whisked off in a black SUV or helicopter or flying disk or giant silent hovering triangle to an undisclosed location or underground base, to undergo round-the-clock interrogation with absolutely no chance of confessing. Ignorance could be, well, factual yet terminal, or result in endless detention. 


Of course, the odds that you’ll stumble upon the code words are extremely small, so not to worry too much. But if you do, you’ll never argue it was random chance. You will, of course, eventually appeal to your captors that you’ve had no role in government service, signed no documents swearing secrecy, have no knowledge of any secret programs, but you’ll only be digging your own grave. Better to remain silent. Just resign yourself to an unknown stretch of concrete floors, bare walls, and endless monotony. 


Soon you’ll find it’s not unlike your so-called free existence. You’ll learn to accept, even appreciate, the routine. Everything’s provided for you. After a while, you might even be given a legend and mixed back into the general population, freed to return home. Wandering the streets of your old neighborhood, missing for months or years, seamlessly reintegrated. How is this possible? Friends, family, coworkers, acquaintances will just need a little re-programming. Nothing easier; this can be done remotely in an instant. A flurry of strange dreams, memory implants, a little missing time, electronic records backfilled, and you were never gone.


Wednesday, December 5, 2018

John Pursch - Four Pieces

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1.Pop-up Longings


Late, later than late-night gnus gnawing on an open third rail, tongues glued to iron, to steely-eyed turpentine junkies, sniffing the night away and into owed blimp blimey bovinity, cattle swan song harmony etched in faces of the benighted few, the manly-go-lucky, the montage of spinning dog, spun Chihuahua deep in a sonorous desert aria, soliloquizing in feral fast-forward, flipping out to unlimited amity, armchair avidity, ambulatory tepidity, turbid timidity, a dit-dash-dotty doubt line where changelings reconnoiter, impermanence unfounded.

Slippery ink, swelling northern calipers gently tucking infancy to bayou sleeper car, four-star dynamo in oceanic pitch-and-chutney, polar pub crawl, puttering about in slathered ape philately, milk crate bunch of guestroom lavatory squeak.

Crime tear past ball pomegranate outa sidebar uterus at Speedo sounding gourd, skillful cabling partner pitchfork tune; swamp tar catchall shavings monitoring nightly mews, meows, inverted aureoles, invented aerial combustion urchins, whimsical and full of sumptuous premises, motions to repeal, lowly electric pollution barrier intact.

Far from fleeting placard pies, shirtsleeve sandwich Oreos, pinwheel pop-up longings, wrecked intensity conned clear outa intersection men, wholly under city trees; bombardiers believing pompous plastic inanity, what telestrators spew.


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2. 3:20 AM


Hibernal wind falls in sheets of cloud through time-lapse functionary discipline, sending sprawl across planar release of cotton form fit. Continuity blends with subtle margin, feeding supple rest in serried pupils, frosting hourglass mechanic hands to rust. How flexible, this poplar field, in winding cavalcade of spectral nuance. I seem to evaporate in frozen peal of evening bell, of harbor town in stable osmosis, turning into sleep. Planted reliquaries finger ampersands, mingling starboard wake within a clearly melting heirloom. Often benefitting from seagulls, the sky towers insensate, pulsing in vivid tumbleweed of cloud inflection. Confectionary salt emerges autumnal, branching through seaweed, pickled wax manifolds of sartorial disguise, and listing merchant manacles of ice. Flowering hillsides speak of everlasting sunrise, spring surprise, torpor cast of solid oak, swelling ingot jetty breaking utter watchword codicil to steam. Area hugs exhaustive methods, foreshadowing augmented minutiae of opening day, scouring the seafloor, numbing operands of silent cooperative vendettas. Samovars overflow with grain, excising sweet meats in lieu of golden gluttony. Axial whoppers infer agrarian tomato yields of trebled pasteboard quality, of inseam roller spine-to-cookie rolling pin, of inclusionary felt. Sour potato sinks in murky oily fishpond, selling ringside seats to fungi, flicking on elastic ceiling panel gleam to soldered muscle. Avuncular islands impute logical helpmate ease, lifting crooked pestilence to atmospheric demitasse. Swans ring out the old fear of living, strains of hallway blues reverberating down plunging necklines. Skewered teams awaken, crying to hermetic emissaries of the night for mandatory weeks in hibernation, ventral opulence impending. That, in a naughty optical sail, is birth, which always allows for allocated aliquots, alimentary mentions, affluence in the face of self-effacement, gnawing metaphors, sunken sighs, seamless segues into lowered imitative holism, carbon body bags, hexagonal stacks smoldering on distant isles.




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3. Nanosecond Bra


The foisted sentience of all who seize on rolled scribbles must vanquish the entreating treadmill, the furious goalies of nocturnal treatises gone to simultaneous groaning. Anchors sway in freezing rain, snapping purple waves of insurrection doubt from the jurisprudence of shallow pinnacles.

Soaring leeward pumphouse fleets impute of wooden goobers, futile in the mouths of distended antediluvian switchbacks, box-top radiation felt, Velcro on the salvific shell, purveyors of the earthen vesicles notwithstanding for a moment, a fusillade of futuristic fugu, a figment of aisles in windowless compartments, of cabin logs and elevate crop squares, critical airings; offhand segues into passed balls, ensiled pitchforks, needless stays of elocution, motile lotion, collimated polo crowns, flagellated foxhole frowns, simian emblems singing.

Oh, the humidity, the inanity, a plethora of articles, of of of of of of of of, over and clover a cleaver of cleavage, caloric mistake, ken kin cobbled into tonal sonar antonyms, agreeable forearms; stipulating penguins, penciling in dossiers of dateline dosimeters. To dry land, mythos of Ithacan core, furriers above the cardiac girdle, attending to a mild sleepwalker, an ambulatory son of nanosecond bras. Sweetness came over me, washing income fruit capacity; escape prom demotion wigs atop elusive zebras. Catch all ye canoe, boatsman; whisk immortal rapids off to tender canyon dairy pies, swooping fallacies, aplomb a furtive crane.

Semblance of a howitzer, swing set swoon has all an aneurism could’ve axed a forlorn looping masquerade of pineal pyre and antelope yore for which for many foreground tattoos. Serried occasions plop through the tough-guy frontier commodity of sworn necropsy, agoraphobia, and wise guy grunting eulogy for funk, oil, and clockwork call-girl aptitude (what be tested for and inculcated by gradient scrolls in all the finest laudatory yet barely audible crumples of stilted lingua Franceska; oh to see her just once again but they tell me she’s long gone and so am I; perhaps the images were all illusions and can never oh no too terrible but maybe yes of course it’s clear as well as any clarity can be or can it, too, defy existence?).

Falling into word horde, emerging invisible as only an existential kumquat can, cameras do the next best imaginary fling, capturing the mold, a melded adipose indemnity, velocity in merged illumination, bunting rippling over transom of a bakery in afternoon’s wheezing taxi line chronometer, plastic haze of dated pages, paucity in newly printed cringe, to state line chaser submarine.




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4. Venezuelan Love


Sampled dime store rodeo, terminating beachball, extras on a frock parade, inner mutant flax police in iron itch, disabled by a bunch of torn collaboration legs. Airy pot stickers fight homey illusions with metaphysical porpoise. Skyline werewolf imitates sandy orchard enemies of ermine misconception, miscegenation, microbial philanthropy, and commonsense cicadas, circling the laughing nadir. A penchant for pedantic uncles prints Plexiglas vibrations on theistic implants, housing crow silence where yeast spittoons roar.

Angular mocha levitates inching insinuation belt, prolongs concavity in sisterly proxies. Cowhands slur asymmetrical overdoses within propositioned crayon fumes. Lead me to a seen saw, extolling yardwork, furious catnip, pocketed pollution. Slanted gumbo polygons eschew drywall under laminated pilot flavor. Scratchy wicks combine to salivate between two apoplectic chirpers, partners in microbial pylon sales, polling stamped villagers for hemmed presets. It’s a bagel to pardon an incipient mound, dwelling on miniscule profundity, but embers flee to hopscotch sleep in shoveled army auras. They prance, they wiggle; it all depends on haircuts. Pangs offer younger avian wonders, understudies in disguise, preppy to skate off without a songbird.

Contrails amass four desperate hellos for every utterly preposterous movie. Hear me, creosote! Snowy chariots collide in homeschooled logic. Scapulae protrude exuberance, squelching luddite tailings. Scions offer scientific ontology and deprive homunculi of missing fossil craters, mirth updating conical device. Felt swoons at the fetal seaport’s showy auditorium, mixing pixelated threshing halves in grainy filigree. One somatic tributary fills the seasoned face with smiles, with likelihoods and prognoses, nauseating prognostications of shucked excess, courtroom bombast, stillborn pewter, mourned emphatic roadhouse cures, panegyric palliatives, lollipops in mimeographed quotidian leaves of glassware.

Cuneiform bras, belief in miniature, mediocre lures, allude to mutilated captain’s chairs. Handing over monkeys, we obfuscate the humid compression of thought; of dovetailed chains, churlish chimney steeplechase, and soldered military night. Musty hens drop doubled ache of fused sighs, syndicating sleep deprivation at precisely the first climatically implored comet. Flagstone rupture fixates on gowned crescent sandwiches, kissing crustaceans, seeing thrown Cossacks hurl a window sash a hundred miles beyond Smolensk, napping canonical postprandial deluge bedaubed bedamned bedraggled bedridden, a hundred smiles from mossy caveman va-va-voom!

Where oh how or whenever one can’t continue to cater to two or more eels, in choral coda epilogues or effective lassitude or swollen wristwatch underbody, carriage cane to perish bygone swordfish shunt oblivion, interminably literate, compendia imploding on a duck’s scenic moniker. Camphor navigates a well-worn tapestry, inundating titled appendectomies with woolen ampules. Often suffrage lectures in a subtitled column, taking in defiled souls. Gradual causeways prepend basaltic blues to pillbox sax controls, evolving Venezuelan love.

Monday, February 19, 2018

John Pursch - Catfish Knock-Up Negligee

Nibbling on squirreled potato, Lola sneaks double-four hammer noggin peanut wheeze at incoming bystander, fleecing known philatelist for groping gallop, frisked calliope, canonical muskrat pinch. Now wad she all floss and fluster, figurine a bastion-bobble nincompoop of daisies, marigolds, poinsettias, pinstripe bombardier imbroglio, catfish knock-up negligee, corn-town manufacture.

Swig battalion noose to seven-score punch, morphing cobbled opacity of overlook impasto, finished off by severed onset cowpoke blintz. Bazooka breath blows by her sloughed-off year, impact frog a no-show canned by beagle fender, basted pylon over monkey.

Sawed-Off Susie fixate easement what lean off total fitness Geronimo in technicolor forgery, flicker-light to neon freighter, minuscule amortized oil, forward cookie reminisce to dime-store workload, gravel HQ south of Ordinary Umbrage, Waist Scopolamine; flimsy disregard to Savory Hoaxia, pickled hovercraft nod.

"Eyesore!" screaming swordfish tangled floozy posse fringe umbilical, grapeshot shifting triplicate malign, paprika papering wallet machine. A kit, a cadre skim, cartwheeling catamaran collapsing quietly in shaven tee-shirt pundit, spurting segue cheese.

Egret Frank he sleep a night a week a porpoise crease to ballyhoo in lullaby of balky babes, six to a bunk, freckled mosquito knees awkward in pumps, scattered landfill hidden squeak, lumpy crowbar fish amendment, spirochete a pipsqueak hunt, swan-sung Nubian agility.

"He got enormity, doobie codfish cantilever hilltop spot, stopwatch swab a-tween a teeny atropine amorphous ageless mine, fabled mitten underpants, gimpy pool hall escapee," warbles King o' Gang-a-Ruminant, Singed Wad Phlegm in Ancient Heaven Seize to Gums and Traveling Cavalcade Wad Mossy Pie-Clam Torpedo Beak Dipsomaniacal Heterodyne Ipanema Dish Robe.

"Swaddling title, hefty doze have sewn to pocket pellet poultice!" schemata Underlying Umpty, once a lofty snow-cleft codified by groupies, croupiers, sibylline ceramic sparks, musty burning rum in fumigated scarf.

Monday, December 11, 2017

John Pursch - Nine Poems

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1. Ad Lib

Synchronized 
swimmers 
turn to water 
in public ad lib.



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2. Gladiolas

Springing moot hind oiler saw, 
peachy oaken nuptials, 
orange in ipso catered seizure, 
orphaned gladiolas. 




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3. Groceries in August
  
I see a gal, a sea,
an omnivalent census 
of groceries in August.




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4. Illicit Hips

Drip a dollop, 
draft illicit hips a solid, 
foment auction open road 
gorilla motive amateur. 




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5. Marzipan
  
Oats now 
glistening,
snow white 
over marzipan! 




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6. Mauve Ouches
  
Thinking mouth 
of crawlspace 
mutters lunacy 
in mauve ouches. 




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7. Nomenclature
  
Fading out by radio, 
secondhand illusion
melts in iron 
nomenclature. 




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8. Snow Knew What
  
Snow knew what 
to turn on mid-life 
faucet cut to 
consequences. 



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9. Zoot Elan Kerplunk
  
Chi-squared prolapse 
inner freak 
dominates blue 
cormorant.