'silent' night iliketea

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gypsy boys like tea gypsy girls
tinker tough thought
mention names as wide as Aristotle
wearing skirts in a hoopla mass
spite of its summer their laughter
plays the cutting-edge hansel &
gretel to earthen-ware juices
baring body as he wiggles an
ass first for a king
she's straw down in his bed
this prison's an end



nice boys dig quare thought
keeping gender at bay
(hiding their thoughts to themselves)
by and by girls flounder in the wave
orgasm rip-tide it's heavenly spinward
hush-a-byes at the Pharmaprix
all night bakery drugstore you want it
we got it goodies store cruising the
aisles seedier lams on the take
i woundnt 'xactly say its graduate school
shit but spare marks doing overtime
shes a canadian worker with british marks
on her vein line up the royal works


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you get the feeling its exaggerated
hyperbole not quite
the 'great boled oak'
of a particular ancestor
or knocking knave in butler
and tree
its rhizome pancake
a flutter on the docks of fennel
the docks of denial
the docks of punkrock rage
christmas eve & all is well
crowned in christendom's capital
isms floating signifiers shitting by
in the lonely subway
where the dead keep pace
with makers of glory and dye

Mister Boo-hoo is that baby
Jesus you got wrapped in the plate?


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come on over to the check-out
counter its the american language
yer speaking anyhow not english
or canadian shit like that you know what I mean?
Ma? is this the thing?
whatever shrugs
whatever , whatever , whatever




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