Paolo Javier

FORMAL APOLOGY TO MY ASSHOLE

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     O cat lion

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Maybe Im All Of This

     Pinch me into sexy

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until the higher rose madder lends hey.

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Im wearing unsentimental Antigone

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     O constant pinch

sigh in all brute liberty

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     O ocean love for miles on solid

from your lost supplicant

restrained in mud

     Restrained in mud—

MCCARTHY AT HEART

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I, St. Exupery, hand a revolver

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     FARTHER AN AVENUE KIMONO

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