“Here's to the ladies who lunch…”
--Stephen Sondheim

 

A Little Garden

 

1.

How may how
       can permission?

En-/dis-imperative?

Quicken every other les(s/t) oblivion?

                                                                                    Leap

                                                                                               eject
                                                                                               per se

                                                           (trajectory itself
                                                                          another
                                                  seminal structure/
                                                  end-line/beget [it's an orb]?

Take responsibility for
example qua
apposition/to
panlexic forms of from?

How may can
one subjunctive
passive give
the fifth?

 

2.

 

Alamogordo(,) atoll
                 (silver
drives over the slain twins unburied crossroads)
                indemnify
links. Best(,) bets switch-and-switch-and-
                called.
Were-to-have-been-and-had gun(s) engines in parking
                pigeon-holes
called Mall (Dear Ann How May I Help You Today Flanders)—
                AKA-24/7—
never-wusses(,) e.g.(,) a pebble-pushing postman stonewall
                Petra.
No longer there, then—rapt stone trumps
                8 Mile Chernobyl.

 

 

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