fragments of an interview

] sometimes i go
onto the patio &
crush the leaves
of the geraniums
in my hands
& smell them.
i don't know
why i do it [

Fragments from: The Natural History of Atticus, by Atticus the Elder (Book XIV, Chapter 55)

] any bee lost from the hive [

] a broken vase [

] of honey across the stones [

] under sunshine [

] will break the hearts [

] of insects & animals. Please see Lepidopterology [

] youngsters in the green [

Fragment of murderers notebook, 1981

] thimble sans thumb

I will lightening into life [





] rare & ocular.

Fragment, 1457b [parts missing]

] winged.

Before summer the seedlings [

] & of all grasses in the plains

these are the finest [

] drawn

across [

] purples & [

] browned around the [

] masts of ships &

sentried city walls.

Bring us to tomorrow.

(Nezahualcoyotl, 1457)

Fragments Of A Murderers Notebook, 1972

] pearls

& foals [

] in the fishing patch [

] by the Genesee [

] the strangled [

] brown the grass [

] pollen [

] inhaled by insects [

] its [

] growling firs & [

] following [

] protests.

Fragments from: The Natural History of Atticus, by Atticus the Elder (Book XIV, Chapter 54)

] growing through the stones [

] perfect examples of leaf [

] roots [

] crooked boughs [

] leavened bread for the fishermen [

] & the exiting of birds from the clouds [

] to swarm green bees before [

] the dust.

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i have an interview

this afternoon

& i just want to

read a book


about an all i] gator

or how to start a f i r e

in the wild | with a s t o n e

& a stick &amp:


or on the lives | of the saints < ! a / ! >


instead i will read

this job description

& work out what

to say if asked about my strengths

& my weak ] nesses


which are almost the same | really

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