Drew Gardner

 

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The Willful Disjunctive Little Points

 

 

the willful disjunctive little points

don’t make it to the shore, because that

water doesn’t exist at all

 

those are rooftops they moved away from,

with leaking doors like unexpected excitement

moving at no small cost across the hope

 

it turns out you’ve been drinking it all along, first

as speech, then as lingering, now

sufficiently fueled-up

on unoriginal bliss, wants some help

from the disenfranchisement

 

defensive, recording and slow, the culminations

either want it, or just forget it, OK?

produces heaven inside the world

 

shouldn’t you have been more arbitrary?

when it surges up, I can’t believe

that happened again

 

you don’t remember much, do you?

caught under the skin

permanent

 

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