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Checking the seasons someone says fall
or I’ve mistaken a trust in the vernacular
Checking the seasons someone says fall and I drop like hell
thinking, what fresh hell is this? I’m burning
Toast black you know
like Eileen Myles. I cannot live a hot & depressed life, etc.

It’s like dots of sweat
trembling on Maria Callas’s mustache. Call that
pastiche. Healthy living.

You know like vegetables & dope
or I’ve mistaken a trust in the vernacular

Churlish. treading water
having left the left
I always steep when left behind

on the Verrazzano Bridge
Welling. backing down...Lydia’s lover
said

“I really identified with Epstein as a Puerto-Rican Jew.

As a Puerto-Rican Jew with a routine latrine job.”
the slaughterhouse,
a smoky dot in Europe.