| grass and trees 
 luc simonic
 | now that i have relieved myself, onto my hand, onto lips and mouths,
 
 spilling mission critical data out
 my hard drive and onto my flash drive
 
 sticking it into the lettuce wrap.  the
 spicy lettuce wrap.  the soothing lettuce
 
 wrap, not sure if any of this will ever be
 worth more than the plastic it's in, so
 
 pardon my french. pardon my spanish.
 pardon my japanese, my long distance
 
 pleasure pie and preeminence and
 
 everything else whose mist creates
 
 olfactory pleasure & guilt like
 the day your grandmother was buried
 
 your cousin you have not seen for
 16 years.  the cousin whose one
 
 avoided eyeshot finally greets yours
 in similar fashion and all the shadows of
 
 death in every corner of your sanctuary
 are pale angels in comparison to the smell
 
 of one summer evening so many years
 ago in the middle of nowhere surrounded
 
 by grass and trees.
 
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