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           america--
           always the same grind.
           eden a bust,
           raw genesis
           come and gone

           I'm set to travel
           but hucksters whore the air waves.
           it's buy me this, buy me that
           

           where to now,
           now that we've screwed the country?
                                                                       running off at the mouth
                                                                       to a foreign woman,
                                                                        maybe venice.
                                                            in winter her civil canals
                                                            spillover, slap back the labyrinth
                                                           of street names, the language that wants
                                                                      to straighten things out


             who was it who said we can drive the boat but not the ocean

             in summer
             the rialto a harbor
             clogged with bodies.
             I pass a fat bobbing one
             sweating canal stink,
             waterlogged her flashy skirt of ships
              

             I pass another who drags bottom
             under the grip/weight of purchase,
             drifts back
                                               into the labyrinth,
             moored to his wife

                                                    or else to paris
                         to knock tourist boots, walking the concrete banks of the seine
                                                               dry

             wine and bread, the blood red words of rimbaud-- can these resurrect
                     a poet

             or have we so sickened
                             the voice?
                         its gut soundings
                 wrenched from the world text
                
                              that no mangod will walk here
             so much
             romantic
             debris
                        floating by( e )[I]

             and river poems, I mean, bore the shit out of me

             anyway, why bitch?
             everywhere it's the same rundown.

             I just want some, know what I'm sayin '?
             some bubbly ass on the boulevard,
             that pellmell wiggle
             to get my logos up

             I'm ready to talk money

             but the zealots say she was created for us,
                                                    just like that,

             in a garden--
                                  free

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