Here's the deal: You
take care of me,
I'll take care of you.
The body's a car
Whatever's-not-the-car,
that's the driver.
Or the car's an animal,
the driver a zookeeper.
The animal's a ditch,
the zookeeper a wheelbarrow.
A wheelbarrow bringing
tobacco, whiskey
& even love because,
well, just because.

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Robinson Recalls His First Year of Marriage

The Blue Boat
Kathleen Jamie

How late the daylight edges
toward the northern night
as though journeying
in a blue boat, gilded in mussel shell

with, slung from its mast, a lantern
like our old idea of the soul

"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
- Marilyn Monroe

Generation

We know the story.

She turns
back to find her trail
devoured by birds.

The years; the
undergrowth

-Rae Armantrout

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And, the talking kitten!