Ballad of the Lime Cadillac
made from metal scratches like
a stand-up comic or the prophet
on the Strip
Elijah emerges, and I always wanted to
Ask his mother. Does a scratch work?
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planets warming, ill with gravity, a
rhyme
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Burned
rubber?
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was it Cain’s spirit
that western summer
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“Be biblical like a short story mythologized.
@ $1.99 a bodega of endless wine.”
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Star says I am always juggling the hours,
the others?
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Kids. getting high on Mulholland Drive
dirty Cadillacs in morning lime
Other Works
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... No moonbeams spill over the floor of the bower / Where the limbs grow tangled in apses of green ...
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... I'm not foolish enough to think that I would be able to sell real art ...