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Marla Shapiro's Poetry

Empiricist Poem in reaction to the Post-Structuralist definitive
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    your table cannot do the many
tricks that
my aunt
lisa
can do with Iran.

                        cannot spin it.
                        cannot cultivate it into an orgiastic
display of holticultural
might.

    O PAPA, WHY DOESN T THE WIND ELIMINATE DESPAIR IN THE FORSEPS??

heil.
hitler, eating the proverbial lentil, is
a screaming lunatic in
 a large shoebox.

         preferably Buster Brown but also maybe Keds. Or Bata.
Reebok.

Poem in MEMORY of three German Car.m Salesmen defecting to IDAHO
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the water back into you,
you flee,

         screaming didactically about Parisian sewage  treatment.

it was then
that
i
knew    that
                        I love you.

loved you.

the octopii, octopuses can't
boil the way you can
with your wayne newton moustache beret.

flay

and wandering you can not help but
notice that your underwear is on backwards andthatlangston hugheswasanegro

adn you run screaming to the

ugandan embassy.

mumbling about dick cavett and woks
and i rol
l you up in my stomach and jump into

ford escort.

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