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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{pennyroyal}
  andrea deangelis


The pennyroyal has hairy arms and petty mind
“I only want to disembowel time,” he says
with his corner screwed hat and discolored shoes
He dreams he is a muse to ways long ago
with his shrub-like beard and disappeared leers
but really he is hairy everywhere
fertile except for his mind
and his small bluish eyes.