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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{it's time to learn other countries}
  amy king


I don’t think people should walk around naked.
We didn’t invent clothes as a laughing graffiti.
Similar people have thought likewise.
Alas, an atlas does not describe exactly where
these minds are stable at any given point in the gravity
that holds our positions to Google mapmakers.
That is, that is the primary place where all things
dissolve, though we try to hold hands and thoughts
intertwined as so many tics of the human apparatus,
we name the piano lobes anti-matter.
I don’t know if you even follow the progression
of this species, this race, this variety of ethnic barriers,
but just keep hold to the platter that a shirt or a sock
gives to the eye’s gatekeeper: you are of this sector
bearing this income in your army’s holding pattern.
That bank is the commercial one of commerce.
That bank protects the identity pinpoint you travel on.
That bank never lasts. In actionality,
I ate my time, held birth, got into belonging.
Loyal is worth it. Hard to hold. We all want some.