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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{ninety five}
  rd coleman


rewriting is shit.
weaknesses remind me
of a house of mirrors.
doubt grows into a tumor.
symphonies are staffed
by deaf musicians.
i want to vomit.

rewriting reveals
i was out to lunch.

I was jello
     mind, jello
     poem, jello
         spirit, jello
         heart, jello
              wits, jello
                 passions, piss in diapers.
Ich war fucken’ jello.

I drink seltzer, water, black coffee no sugar, ipa,
single malt
...anything else if nonw of that is around
then close my eyes.

then proceed.

this poem is as god gave it to me:

mostly.