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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{the best}
  barton smock


i.

odd, this park.
no pigeons, no
mothers.

tall babies, taller straws.

a man
in scrubs
on a bench.

I've brought bread
and am suddenly
quite sad.

if you can't picture
how sad I am
think of your friends
leaning

into the door
of a cane factory
where you've given
notice

      where what looks
like a rib, is.

ii.

think of them eating this bread.