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Peter Jay Shippy

BlazeVOX [books

Buffalo, New Yor


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Copyright 2005

Published by BlazeVOX [books]

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the

publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews.

Printed by CafePress.com in the United States of America

Book design by Geoffrey Gatza

First Edition


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A burning candledrains echoes

from golden haulms.I just keep losing

my noise. Oneprayer quitclaims

rain shadows.The umbels veiled

wax xylemsyellow,zinc: zoom yens:

xeme wings vroomunder

the seas riffing,querulous praise.


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Only nave mortadellaleaks kama juju.

I heavegangplanks forward,

expectingdurutti columnists

bearing attitudeand bikini creases.

Devil-may-carefreeEtruscans

fling grappahitting, instead, junior

Kiwanis leaders.Mind-boggling!


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No one promotesquacksalver remedies, save

tsetse usersvis--vis whatchamacallits?

Xenogenesists?Yosemite Zoos

zany young xylophagouswerewolves vilipend

uterine tree spikers,Rescind Q-tip peens!

Our necrotizing memesload kewpie juice

into Herbert Georges fedora!Ersatz doggerelistas!


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Come back, Attaboys!Air bladders can

deploy early, freeinggas heads in joining kingfish.

Look Ma, noorchestral pit queens

revealing sham teats.Undine venom

will Xeroxyap zappy zealots,

yanking xebecswith varicose undertows.

The sword reposquill pens.


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Once, Nankingmachine linguists

kludged jowlyinfinite hoops.

GE foundelegant designers

cantering behindalpha and beta.

Cambridge data-gloved egg-

heads foundgovernment head-

hunters implantingjinx.


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Karl laissez-faire Marxsnoblesse oblique

projections quelledrunaway

Salisbury tartar usurers.View Walloon!

X-C youngsterszigzag Zatopek

yawing X-axis Way.Voltaire urged

tactual salesresistance,

Quit placatingoutr nabobs.


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Milanese lobbygowskeep jetpacks

in hidden grottoes.Fast escapes

demand cobelligerents.Beams aimed

at bean countersdeliver easy facts.

Getaway hacksin Jalalabad

keep looseMausers

near ornatepalazzos.


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Quaffing rum,Sweet Tooths

Uncle Vitowaxed

Xanadu,You zakuskahead!

Zabaglione,yakitori, xenopus

were veryunguent treats.

Serving rare quail?Piquant ortolan?

Nouveau mousse?latched-up kudos.


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Vostok wingedxenotransplantationers

yonder. Zootyzoukistas

xeriscaped waterviroids until

tertiary syphilisrapacious quicksand

poured out, northward,making love

knotsjabber-wonky.

In HollywoodGodard figure eights.


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Dance crimesbeguine!

An accessory beforecurtain datum

eats forbidden grapes(helps in jumping).

Kaffeeklatsch liberalsmoo nous

outcaste principles.Queer radicals

slouch towarduniversal

vroom waresX-out your zesters!


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Zooeys xoanonwas valued

under toad spitregimes.

Qwertypolice ordinances

now mandatelatch key

jock itching.Heartbroken Gods

fight expendituredisorders

cloistering, bulimiaand access brokering.


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Casting dieedge forward,

grabbing historyin jaws

kept lockedmarked necro

on pelt quipu.Raree show

trapezes usevicua with

xenobioticyellow zags.

Zapata youth:xu warriors.


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Veins ululate.The ship rides

qualmless.plaintless. One

night, magpieslilting

Kansascity jazzin high-hat

Glaswegianfada emporiums

drankChenin Blanc

and a beatific corddead ends.


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Forget green hills,I jaw.

Knotgrassedlawn mowers

needle out,paring quarry

roses, soft taxingurgent violets.

When xenocrystsyellow, zappy z-

lines yaw x-legs, westvexing undertows

to sunsets,ripening quietus.


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Prairie oompahnurses mau-mau

leitmotifs. KGBsjukebox intonates

hardcore gabbafrom Euro

dtournementconceptualists (Berlioz

and Autechre).Before chess,

Duchampseroticized foie gras.

His inamorata?Jalapeo knockwurst.


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Luna moths,nightglow, orange

pekoe, quayside,red spiders

tat, undulantvelocipedes weave

xenias.Years zeroize.

Zills yearn.Xuzhou

weeps vines.Umbrella trees

stalk,raining quirks.


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Passagesof new moonlight

lick kudzu jiggers.I hear glass

fish, erasingdownriver, coal

black, aswarm.A blackbird calls

duskward, etchingfrangible glitches.

Hanging in jackets,kestrels lynch

mice, noosingon parabolas.

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