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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{laudanum please}
  coleen shin


I would lick the mouth
of this pacific disease
call my self a departure
looking steeply
at buildings with elevators
at vultures, irregular seams
and suspicious smokestacks
everything rose
and wave and love song, stings
nettles & bees
what are you to me?
unfinished sentences
prosaic impossibilities
a plate under glass, cake
too sweet, too pretty
too glossy a treat
I want everything I've given you
back please
and a receipt
I'll hollow out a space in the gut
of a Fillipski painting
climb into and dance
with his fat blond
her wet hypodermic needles
eat the waxy brown box
of this abrupt delivery
to a new nowhere
an old familiar cat's
side slick
glance at tempting
deconstructions
a pity that
backward engineered
to a flat line
erase the tracks