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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{oh voleur}
  tasha cotter



Slipping on wettened glass in a wavy light

     I was caught. Hands out

And lifted to a local foosball table.

     One eye landing on a fading face.

In this wasteland I appear by a sinking creek of vodka

     And we are near a spotty forest of dancers

Dancing to something trendy and electronic.

     Then the song with words is cut off.

As I exit all recognition I feel

     My fist shoot up like a whitened bulb

Wanting to burst the earth

     Of your cheek. I start to think

The steps are axed to bits.

     I look around for a clearing,

But the voices that are there

     Are like inescapable shades of moods

I want to get a hold of myself

     To stop the music. To stop you.