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“& not that he’s wrong”
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& not that he’s wrong he’s got a point to tell the truth i myself have been scheming dream of never returning from recess running out way to heck and gone past the railway junction reckless as a runaway hen headed straight for the river smell of baloney & butter on my hands skipping my knees skinned & dipping for snakes skinny dipping with all the young rakes all the way to zanzibar all of the aches going and coming and allen and andy and alex i have laid eyes on them and would it had been hands they were such handsome fellows but most of all oh most of all randy and he me and randy smooth as cornsilk and who’d believe me he slippery as houdini up & asked me wouldi wouldi wouldi wouldi wouldi wouldi wouldi wouldi wouldi 46 / By Word of Mouth whispered in my ear all the way to vernon train jerking under us past trees snow had fallen into sweetness of their breath past the hard darkred cherries hung in bunches by peaches lanterns someone had hung in the branches all along the hills apricots with their soft fuzzy skin all the way barebummed into kalamalka lake in plain sight of the mackie place goose-bumped with the water up to my nipples hard in the air him too saying yes yesyes yesyes yesyesyesyes yesyes oh my god yesyes yesyes yesyes The Poetry of Dennis Cooley / 47 ...