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hole
maybe deep summer we'd make our way down
the swimming hole but mostly you just dragged
the old tin tub to the pump let the water warm
in the sun if you were lucky a little lye a washrag
if cleanliness is next to godliness if godliness
is next to the flowers if the flowers if your fingers
if your pits if the pit of a prune gets spit in your hand
if the water never warms the body stays dirty
class
the external gills typical of amphibians
exposed to the environment if you gargle
enough frog eggs you might learn
how to breathe if you borrow enough money
you might be able to put enough gas in the tank
to get you to town o stagnant water frog embryo
stink of your stink somewhere there's a machine
that can look inside you and tell you why it hurts
spoon
sense is something other people make take
me on this mountain isn't even a mountain
more like a hill and a wall in the kitchen
with twenty old spoons for décor
but not a soup or a jelly nothing
to dip the rounded side in i keep thinking
i'll come to understand what i've been
put here for but then i get desirous
and forget to wonder or the old man
wanders in and says boo just to scare me
and i go on the porch and shake until it rains