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Extreme Patience Of those who, believing the world would end that day, assembled on one member’s front porch and sat, waiting in the event that this should occur – it hasn’t and at sunset they get back up and disperse to separate houses until called when next to witness such desirable oblivion.                                 the shadow on the page of someone chewing gum                      the vowels are all in a row,                                           rasping continents                      Buttons and Bows                      Boots and Saddles            what with this wild and crazy relativism                                 born to be written                      a speck                                                               --a what?                                           light, mere light --------------                                 an unmentionable painting by Gustave Courbet                      Why the typeface suddenly appears                                 smaller, reduced, debased                                                     One of us recalls the found                                           letter and he who found                                                     out her side of their story                                                               there                      Alice, Brigid, Miriam, Rusty, Eve,                                           Bunny the girl next door                                                               the last Andy Warhol impersonator

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