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148 ALEX LEMON MISERICORDIA Maybe it is wonderful— How slow every life How every slow life Shudders forward Every life a slow Motion Mistake— Of photographs, stills From an ashy film— It’s hard to tell The good things From the bad The masks they share Clothes, they are The same nostalgia Nothing & needlefaced 149 ALEX LEMON SLOW CLOUD A gathering bang Spreads purpleLipped across dawn— So unseam me, Bewonder The black forest sings A wooden bowl spilling Thickly over Steam from Our tricked-out Holes All low down Like nothing sweet Will ever touch you Emberlight in the drooping Shadows of live oaks Dead deer are waking Up all around me 150 PEELERS ALEX LEMON It’s always neon in The skinner Box, amateur hour On this planet of ass-slappers Us doomlusters Pray to be rotten With fish-bellied tricks But we’re dog-skulled. All heartWorm & bleeding Gums. How much for You to crawl Inside & wear me around Like a suit Of armor, a summer dress Splayed In this cataract of darkness Our grins glow The slow back ...

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