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A L L A N P E T E R S O N Plenty to Go There is plenty to go around After all there are almost two of all of us split down the middle so we can share blood and give away kidneys Even the brain is halved ready to serve We are built for plenty from the stars down That’s why we’re uneasy with mirrors and dotted swiss and their heavenly excess pasted or drawn like a scratchboard on the inner skull a galaxy discrete streaks of meteors then all that tangle below Under their glass domes the clocks are tightened just enough to be true to the dozen numbers they are always touching then leaving They cannot decide are constantly in love again with the next one equally long with equally slim feet If we lie down and share these bodies with the sunny edge of the woods in Meridian the plentiful grass will cover us so we cannot see and we will be part of the watery purples making timely landscapes for someone long before they get there The gnats and other grass angels above us say there is enough for everyone The 2000s ❚ 271 but you must be finally satisfied with that one asymmetrical death and keep it keep it completely to yourself 272 ❚ The 2000s ...

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