clearance Q

for the love of silence 

they lived 

alone

no tv

no kids
strong meds

no voices no 

dogs

they got they life 

back 4 nothin' 

off a clearance 

rack

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fears and opinions

 dawn

coffee and

classical music 

help push aside the fears

everybody has 

i must be thoughtless

dreaming

for worlds come

into view

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joie de vivre

the songs on the radio 

could pull them through the roughest days

the no knock warrants of mood and memory 

flashbacks attacking the heart

the soul

if they made it out 

alive they traveled to the intersection 

of bustling and boisterous

hoping joie de vivre might 

rub off

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life after cancel

 they anticipated a day the world 

would cancel them too and dreamed 

up some life what would follow

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levee city

we walked levee road

the heat threatening 

shopping carts pushed

into the canal the geese 

hissing. the last great flood

in 1850 the things 

which used 2 no longer 

scare me

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geolocation

out from under

hundreds of miles of cassette tape

and wires. useless and bound by 

an ethos of noninclusivity they

patched it together they

sang they own wobbly

song til someone 

came around

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immersion

composing worlds in solitude

what a way of seeing something missing

bringing into being what

you seeing

they can go there 

all who belong

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