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<span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">have</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma">something like a mystery to solve, not that</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">a floppy straw hat</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma">to organize the light, it falls all over me like this isn't New York</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">you wouldn't understand, how darkly my sunglasses sit</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma">on the ground arms folded</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">this concrete is sand</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">no parking sign a love letter</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma">right? scrawled</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">in lipstick in blood</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">let's romanticize everything</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma">glare like you want me</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><b>MRB Chelko</b> is Assistant Editor of the unbound journal, <i>Tuesday; An Art Project. </i>She has poems in current or forthcoming issues of<i> Indiana Review, POOL, Washington Square, Forklift, Ohio </i>and <i>Verse Daily </i>among many others. Her second chapbook, <i>The World after Czeslaw Milosz</i>, is forthcoming from Dream Horse Press. </span></span></p>
</span><div><br></div>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>