Bob Genevro

We stood and proclaimed 'I do' wedding wows
and the organ grinded
The Taco Bell Canon in D Major
and Chopin's Polonaise Mayonnaise in Egg Flat.
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Ponies
Dancing prancing albino ponies
dance to the cap-gun crackle
of the lightening leather whip.
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peeks out
from her black curtain veil.
We sit with
backs straight
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Elizabeth Steinbruner

Born February 23,1920 in Dulsburg, Germany,
passed November 17,2005 in Roseville, California.
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It comes
equipped with an easy to open
automatic
double insulated
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We do things
to keep something from doing something
the milk from expiring
the scale from cracking
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This is just to say
I have eaten the legs
that were in the refrigerator
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Time is ankle deep in wet cement.
A 78 phonograph record on 33.
'Can you buy me ahhhhhh
high protein shake from
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artichoke of self-loathing
blizzard of Cherry Garcia
bouquet of broccoli ecoli
bungee cords of black licorice
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His teeth once white as popcorn, now golden as movie
buttered popcorn.

God bless ghosts, guns, Bush-Cheney and the summer
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'We now know why you've been having so much trouble'
a neurologist said over the phone.
'Your MRI shows you have
a brain tumor
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'Jeez, ' he said. 'I'm sorry
to hear about your brain tumor.
I hope you're gonna be OK.
My wife's first cousin's husband's sister's son
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at Nativity School
boys reek of Butch Wax and Vitalis.
White arrow shirts and salt n pepper corduroys
stiffen like cardboard from laundry starch.
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1.
mighty weight lifters get
disqualified from painful
urinary infections
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Adams Adams Harrison Harrison Roosevelt Roosevelt Bush Bush

Ford Polk Pierce Grant Taft Hayes Bush Bush
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Robert Bishop (1918-2009)
was born in Hibbing, Minnesota.

He was a devoted husband to Jane
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1.
TRUE LOVE

The most popular tulips
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Our Art Teacher Mrs. Nickels
bites her lower lip
with her Bucky Beaver teeth.
She slides yellow pencils
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in the Dodge Center showroom
they perch on mahogany tables
flick their Marlboro ashes on their 3-piece navy-blue suits
stare with bloodshot eyes
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I.
You abandoned your marriage cottage
decorated with wallpaper of wilted roses.
Your South African diamond ring now
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