Where I live, love rolls off the tongue like a licorice candy spat in a penny pond. Children dance around the town fountain to the staccato notes of trombones. At the center of the fountain, lips pursed, you pose Poseidon-like atop a hippocampus. In your rucksack, a hundred drowned horses' heads lolling. What do you think? You hone your trident over their flat rock teeth. What do you do? You think.

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Where I live, you'd believe. All's a cluttered grayscale. I leave my rooms each morning to collect. In the air, burning tires. In the watering cans, gasoline. In you, prayer like a foot in my mouth. Wheeling round disks of bread in my wheelbarrow, I think about going on strike. I do not go on strike. I think about moving to Florida.

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Where I live we get naked. I rub the bread all over your body. It's like pumice tearing down the bricks of your thighs, which are flushed and dotted with crumbs. Bits of broken skin. It's like thinking, and then all at once it's like doing. Abrasive. Naked.