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<font><i><span style="font-family:Tahoma">from</span></i><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> RITUAL</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span><br></span></span></span></div>1.<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Echo - Re/echo</span></span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">The world is white and moving</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px">
<font><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Birds play with a twig of millet</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">I make signals with my fingers</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">No one understands what I say</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">This is the way I want it, I get it</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px">
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<font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span>2.<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Evaluate The Broken Things</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Your hands make me dirtier</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">than I was at the beginning</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">I do not mind that at all, love</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Luck provides me many things:</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">I have your cleansing mouth</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px">
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<font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span>3.<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Re/Evaluation of Movement</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma">There has been little, and only</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">on one side – meaning both</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">sides, but independent of each </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">other, yet obviously showing </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">the causal effect of your words</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px">
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<font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span>4.<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Re/Evaluation of Motion</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma">One of us is a defective clock</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">and the other is a boomerang</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">You think you know which</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">is which but I have promised</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">the silent cuckoo I’ll never tell</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></font></p>
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<font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> <br><b>John Findura</b> holds an MFA from The New School. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a guest blogger for <em><span style="font-family:Tahoma">The Best American Poetry</span></em>, his poetry and criticism appear in journals such as<em><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Verse</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Fugue</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Fourteen Hills</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Copper Nickel</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:Tahoma">No Tell Motel</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:Tahoma">H_NGM_N</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Jacket</span></em>, and <em><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Rain Taxi</span></em>, among others. Born in Paterson, he lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife and daughter.</span></font></p>
</span><div><br></div>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>
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