Awesome is listening to Joanna Newsom for the first time. Awesome is taking long walks with my bristly bearded bee's knees, even if the Union Pacific police might roll up on us holding hands, them wearing guns and billy clubs. Awesome is seeing Niva for the first time since last August, even though she's leaving for another year in Israel. Not awesome but necessary is the composing of cover letters describing your professional self.

Rendered abstract, my known parts disintegrate; write the real and ever mysterious, I am restored to the hand-cradled, the color-smeared, the kissed, the licked up, smacking lips red, wet, say it again please, ah!




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