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She Hung Up

                           for Carlos Villa

 

Shadows fall from bricks
In the line of fire without a song
You do the math
People talk and carry on

In the line of fire without a song
An escalator cannot divide
People talk and carry on
Esperanto etudes at Weather Wall

An escalator cannot divide
Many pink petals in a vortex of Oreos
Esperanto etudes at Weather Wall
What gravity is, knowing how the light

Many pink petals in a vortex of Oreos
Earth tones escape the citrus ouch
What gravity is, knowing how the light
Like Russian theft comes minimal, minimized

Earth tones escape the citrus. “Ouch,
Love is a loading dock
Like Russian theft” comes minimal, minimized
In/ out, in/ out, in/ out – but only somewhat slightly

Love is a loading dock
She hung up
In/ out, in/ out, in/ out – but only somewhat slightly
A bouquet of crates

She hung up
They were flint chippers in high school
A bouquet of crates
Quel drôle de vie of Green Card agapanthus

They were flint chippers in high school
Your tentative liabilities awesome as a news hour
Quel drôle de vie of Green Card agapanthus
Let the sunniness of Classicism shine

Your tentative liabilities awesome as a news hour
Shadows fall from bricks
Let the sunniness of Classicism shine
You do the math