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<font size="2">after 1</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"> </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<br></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt;text-align:justify"><font size="2">a.m.</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
 </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">remove contact</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">cataract</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">night glasses</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">


 </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">mon-oculate at</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">K’s mouth,</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"> </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">just a</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">black hole</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">


<font size="2">in his face.</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"> </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">Dream I ate his brain,</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"> </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">diffused our fight</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">by morning,</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">


 </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">4,686,868</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">bytes in</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">58</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">seconds.</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"> </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">Our brain,</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">the cat puts a parasite in</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"> </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">so we love</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">him more, suffer</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
 </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">litter with some</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">gastric</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">juices</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">on the rug.</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"> </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">Shadow, the oldest</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">of 4</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">


<font size="2">K brought</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">to apartment</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">


<font size="2">and a corpse</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">already</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">


<font size="2">under the</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">floorboard.</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">


 </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">Electric composter</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">doesn’t belong in tiny</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">subdivided</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">


<font size="2">old Victorian.</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"> </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">I like Saturdays,</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font color="#000000"><font size="2">benzodiazepine</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">vacuuming</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">over and over scarred wood.</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"> </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">Will the machine eat its own cord?</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"> </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt">
<font size="2">heart heart</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt"><font size="2">burrow in</font></p></span><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif">become zero</span></font></span><div>


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</span></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif"></span><b>Amber DiPietra</b> is a poet and disability culture worker in San Francisco. Her interests include tracking the orthopedic body in real time, personal fossil records, ¡accion mutante! politics, and warm waters. Poems and prose pieces by Amber have appeared or are forthcoming in </font><i><span style="font-style:italic"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Make, A Chicago Literary Magazine, Mirage Period[ica]</font></span></i><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">, </font><i><span style="font-style:italic"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Tarpaulin Sky, Mrs. Maybe</font></span></i><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> and </font><i><span style="font-style:italic"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">TRY!</font></span></i><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">. Visit her blog at </font><a href="http://www.adipietra.blogspot.com/" style="color:rgb(42, 93, 176)" target="_blank"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">www.adipietra.blogspot.com</font></a><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">.</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="all">


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