squirrel blocker bird
house youtube ad mentions The Divine
Comedy

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tred from my bed to
my head to the thing last said
by me — the dead thread

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"Always changing things"
someone I don't know at all
recites to me twice

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rental tuxedo box on the floor
for four months
perfect for thinking

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behind the small door
in the attic — a clown in
a bean bag coughing

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just so you do not
worry, the clown is not there
all the time, I swear

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the clown notes that space
has the best acoustics for
playing wurlitzer

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I sing along — "You're
no good," the clown informs me
over a smoothie

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like that, the clown turns
to leaves... how I never learn
to cope with absence

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on a cold fall day
the woodland edge poses like
variable static

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even leaves have odd
desires — to be walked through
for a while, noise

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the stairs seal themselves
in ice uh I literally
can't do anything

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habit habitat —
real raccoons practice real
dance moves all night long

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then snow — memory
of the start of the end of
a silent movie

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I can be lovely
as long as I want to be
and I will say so