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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{egg timer}
  coleen shin



had you a stick or switch, bare legs

written upon, a language of weals, red

and welts, I wondered, am I good?

I will do it right, promise, will say

and be and feel and see, and count, correctly

It all adds up, doesn't it?, I, can't, I

I, I, it is a testament, this gasp for breath

I loved you in that cold kitchen, summer

had left, nowhere, nowhere to go

I can not write it down, you are not my father

I am not a Pavlov puppy

you have been dead now, for years