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27 February 2006 | Vol. 5, No. 4
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You may already have won $10,000!
That's not what you'd hoped
to sift from passing traffic, no
Some clouds (cirrus), a drive to
the dentist responding to your
Some clouds (alto), a drive to
the grocery. Now you
have to put a check inside.
Have you seen me? No.
No help in sight, either: raising
the red flag started all this.
You get a notice telling you
to put your name on it.
You put your name on it.
About the author:
Mark Cunningham has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of Practice, Parcel, and Dusie. A chapbook, Second Story, is on the Right Hand Pointing site. Tarpaulin Sky Press will be bringing out a book tentatively titled Body Language, which will be a sort of diptych containing two collections, one titled Body (on parts of the body) and one titled Primer (on numbers and letters).
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