1. we turn the noises that we
2. make early in the morning
3. into songs with beats and rhythms
4. you will never have to sing again
5. he tells me
6. you will never have to play your
7. red, hollow bodied guitar again
8. i tell him

1. I need
2. to know
3. who I
4. am alone

5. I am
6. so sorry

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1. I’ve started packing up all of my winter things;

2. the coats
3. the sweaters
4. a box of wool tights

5. They are snow proof, gust proof things

Oh yeah.
I won the Frank McCourt prize,
and, oh yeah, Sonny Paine is now sold at Barnes & Noble.

(1. The Bronx Zoo 
 2. The beach
 3. The Cyclone 
 4. Tattoos
 5. Fifteen months
 6. Scientific prints
 7. Tea
 8. Volta
 9. Type writer ribbons
 10. Nine hour shifts
 11. A humming bird
 12. Crab shells)

All birds

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She lives in this house over there
Has her world outside it
Scrapples in the earth with her fingers and her mouth
She's five years old

Thread worms on a string
Keeps spiders in her pocket
Collects fly wings in a jar
Scrubs horse flies
And pinches them on a line
Ohhh...

She has one friend, he lives next door
They're listenening to the weather
He ( Read more... )

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1. It's warm out
2. I know what I'm writing my term paper about
3. This summer I'll be working in a natural foods store
4. Everything is good