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32 Advice “Whatever you do,” said the green bear, “don’t step on your own cock.” In the variegated landscape it seemed simple advice, and it made sense. For the green bear was expert at self-sabotage , accidental and deliberate; having been through it all, by the numbers, so that the outcome was predictable. On the doorstep of his demise he sought recognition for his endgame—magisterial, folksome, clairvoyant. He laughed it up and parsed his acrimony, by the music; by the selfsame enterprise as made the great emporium in the sky. He papered-over the darkness with his landscape. His epitaph read, “Here lies the green bear, who learned, finally, to not step on his own cock.” 01.Poems.1-64_Fried.indd฀฀฀32 11/28/05฀฀฀12:33:19฀PM ...

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