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Dave Bonta

Converted window

I make a window into my cellar. My cellar is full, a land where I have a French cook and a horse— black, but a perfect courtier. My daughter would rather marry a crow.

Dave Bonta

Inspection

alone in the noon heat I have a look at my testicle

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Sacramental

practice wedding— they all steal the minister’s white wine

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Statecraft

Give orders to give orders. A falcon on the hill or a gallows— which is king?

Dave Bonta

Royal flush

a hand with a king— after I vomit I look for good cards

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Bequest

my ugly dog— having no child, I shall leave him all this moon

Dave Bonta

Accounting

the treasurer’s accounts— hogs make a cellar out of the yard

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Men are from Earth, women are also from Earth

mathematical observation of the moon— talking with my wife

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Long walk on the beach

the day is as long as the way home I hear a gull vomit

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Out in the sticks

so far from town singing till almost 12:00 at night

Dave Bonta

Retiring admiral

Her little black dog is our navy. I end this year less one lie, the seas striking their flags to us— cast up all winter on public talk.

Dave Bonta

Cargo

Off the ship that was at Guinea, walk to an alehouse, a woman, cake and the woman of the house, two cakes and a pot of ale, angry at cards.

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