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“If you can read this,
you’re too close.”
This has been specially
hand-crafted in Mexico.
“Hi, you’ll do”
on a tee-shirt
made by young girls
in Thailand?
America poses
in whose mirror?
Irascible.
Insouciant.
2
This is a five star trance.
To have this vantage
from the cliff’s edge,
to get drunk on indifference,
to stare
at a bright succession
of crests
raised from nothing
and flattened
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