How to Number the Abundant Things While They Are Still Abundant, and: How to Care for Lab Animals, and: How to Believe You Are a Founding Father

138 CAROLINE MANRING HOW TO NUMBER THE ABUNDANT THINGS WHILE THEY ARE STILL ABUNDANT At the field- days of desire there was a booth for shooting skylarks. This is a place called Earth. I saw a farmer planting gulls. Sometimes rhetoric is just a lone stud horse. three forests one untouched one logged one razed sustained the same birds but not the same beetles we must make endings meet I hurried to the fence & said I too wanted a horse 139 CAROLINE MANRING HOW TO CARE FOR LAB ANIMALS Fortune has it the very mammal you -’ve selected makes just such incisions . You can -’t get this kind of stock any -where else in (t)his kingdom. We’re (going the way of) the seed -bank. Rights to reproduct -ive process -es waver like halfmashed moths. We are so full of (g)race the fall the end looks like just an -other soft descent on -to a convex -ity. The con -sequent offspring grow on clearcut coffee plant -ations, syn -onyms for the crop’s selfevident youth , 140 pro -duct of: function /prudence/reverence , so help them god. I -’m issuing a par -don for this & a -ny moment that let you live in image. 141 CAROLINE MANRING HOW TO BELIEVE YOU ARE A FOUNDING FATHER No one has to wait in line for long. You may be shocked by the way real organs feel in your hands. You will find your life is neither yours nor empty. Putting us all in one place accents the lack of planning. When you’re not measuring or masoning you begin to apprehend meaning: blow-up lawn ornaments, deer that fall when they cross, alpacas gathering by the fence. ...