Email Exchange Upon a
Rescheduling of Rooms

after William Carlos Williams

i.

This is just to say
there will be no
plums in the kitchen

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What Makes My Clothes Fall Off

With no apologies to Joe Nichols’
“Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off”

Poems don’t stomp a country beat
To make you tap your booted feet
They aren’t equipped with catchy hooks
Adorned by cowboys’ flashy looks
Repeated ’til your brain-root rots—
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Frames of Reference

          The world of computers is
          governed by the hexadecimal,
          where the count of finger
          and toes is expressed as 1416.

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A Shell of a Life

for my Guinevere

The beach is littered
with a thousand shards

hints of pink and purple
wave upon wave of white

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Inconceivable

   It’s very simple dialectics. One through nine,
   no maybes, no supposes, no fractions.
   Dialectic logic is there’s only love and hate,
   you either love somebody or you hate them.
         ~The Photojournalist, Apocalypse Now!

I think he was thinking of dichotomous
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The Dingy Song

or, Meet Me in St. Diego

Ding ding ding rang the dinghy
Well, not really the dinghy
But the bell on the dinghy
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Fall and Winter

The carcass of a doe
has lain for weeks
in a graveled ditch
on Twin Lakes road.

The lower half is gone
but the upper torso
rears back its head
in rigored anguish.

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This Story Might Be True

an Israeli and
a Palestinian
walk into a bar

together

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You Be the Judge

September. Court is in session again,
a darkness on the edge of our town.
Winthrop’s vultures have returned
to their perches in the forked snag.

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A Brief History

On a hillside above Twin Lakes Road
a hand-painted sign beside a rugged cross
reads, “In loving memory of Josh and Rachel—
you will be in our hearts always.”

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