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Solve

for M


The investigation will include

the leaking roof of a moldering country estate

a piece of a letter found burnt in the grate

the memory of a telephone ringing

then the clock strikes


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whether or not language feels at home in a sentence

it is something like a sentence

it happens to someone

or my preference

someone makes something happen


*


what occurs occurs to me


*


the detective

is the mind asleep

which awakened suddenly

tells

tolls


*


a first person narration


*


what direction the head is turned

why the look

the blood drains

from the face


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He eteþ no ffyssh But heryng red


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number of

steps the

deli masked

gunman chicken

cutlet


*


from these


*


a fog settles

but over it

a sunny day

burns to make

its way through


















Unevitable


Go downhill so fast the hill gives way


No more hill


Sacrifice my                     for my


It makes me wish

I was a machine


an ice cream sandwich


The months contract, expand

a day or two or three


When I lock myself in the bathroom


only I can

get me out