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<br><br><font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Bullock, buculus.  Castrated young bull. </font></font><font color="#000000"></font></p></div><div style="margin:0in"><p style="margin:0px"><font color="#222222" face="georgia" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Coiled horn.  The long light shakes across the lakes:    we buy in bulk.</font><font color="#222222" face="georgia"><br>


<font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Give me that oral tradition, that ancient wordy call: </font><br><font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">gums, tongues, and mouths mouthing, eat, sucky, talk.</font><br>


<font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Embouchure—outmoded by the carefree trumpet:</font><br><font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">toodle-oo to Gideon, Joshua, and Saul.  Infinite</font><br>


<font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">surface, finite volume: it might </font><br><font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">be well to mention here that a bugle is sounded, </font><br>


<font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">not blown.  O coppery Butte, O superfunded</font><br><font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">blunder, zinc-y need.  A pit is the earth stripped.</font><br>


<font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Regimented troops need their toots: Assembly,</font><br><font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dismiss, Reveille, and Tattoo; Knock Off Bright </font><br>


<font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Work, Man Overboard, Bayonet, Abandon Ship. </font><br><font style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Sayeth the Boogie Woogie, The Boy, sayeth me.</font></font><font color="#000000"></font></p>


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</p><div class="MsoNormal"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;line-height:normal"><font color="#222222" face="georgia, serif" size="1"><b>Tod Marshall</b> lives in Spokane, Washington. His third book of poems, BUGLE, is forthcoming from Canarium Books.</font></p>


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