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7/28/2019 Way Too West 5

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WAY TOO WEST 5by Julien Poirier

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Last Time: The Cats Cradle Kid

This Time:


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THE GOALIES OF ELDRITCHso far________________________________

Nice, the Interflora foil placed in the menageriea pole awayfrom the cell phone shopand Omega of the subway cave

like a paper cup of lemon icecould be, when youre sick.

And a friend calls to tell youCija Bellis didnt die

You buy a white carnationand wear it to the palmists, hard bythe ticket booth in the station.

And when she turns your hand overyou see her wrists have closed.

It seems to fit. Happy shes alivea bit

like being sent in pieces to your past, past feelingdumb sirens tumble on the ceiling.

She went undercover,her Swastika arm bandturned her panties pink

Sang down parachutistswith lipstick on her teeth.Made the enemy singand shucked his tonguewhen he stuck it in her earWith the same air she had of not being

sure, or thereas though her skin were weather,that I remember:

The same shying hands as her fingers spreadlike electrified riversacross the card table,and she told your future as a fable...


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The tonsured malletthat launched the slug that sprang

the fire bell

smooth jack that took the blow

The beer can by an instepclipped,

the garden snailmajordomo

foreclosed by lye

Water pistols pinpointing pinwheels filling

punchy balloons Root beer candy stickvampire fangs

Nacho lingeriesplayed on generator grateWaspish motorbike

chained to fence stakes...

Crossroads waver in dark heatHalogen fairies on sizzling meatOne Goalie sought her shadow castHole in the Bucket

closing fast

Chico Mariposa San Rafael

Eureka

Hole in the Bucket closing fast

Lakeport Redding LosGatos

Hat Creek


Fort


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m e n d o c i n o

Enci no

Nevada City


Fruitvale Pasa

dena Dublin ECHO PARK



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...Let her sleepa little bit, justenough to get back

her dream , passed out beaton Mokelumne Hillspit and grass bladesprinting her cheek


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WAY TOO WEST

Dean?him in the motel rm.

you? Shitsorm stay-staying, storm shades drawn way redwood mezza-wait

They live ant in toothpasteaNew loopwent tumblers loop 2know, fingers (Grizzly Peak

It bikini top molderingIn early spring. The conscripted greensso on the wall-

Virginia vintageThe cathodestopped able erminehunting cracked her eyeballroad sable airline histo life story.

Theythey marked by a single event: when he pulled out a semi-automatic pistol and shot a pregnant pig at a petting zoo.couldnt horrible)

Justin . Their house always smelled like fresh-baked cookiessome kind of undersugared Snickerdoodleconcerned.the harp embeddedwouldnt, all those flat gray sharp

But as though stuck in fizzled muscles) scat,ragged oak leafbeat the grasstips, pinkmatchespushedhimafter

It casional hikers clewlong, peel shreddayscame

petal from curbside bouquet

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Interviewer: With the new show, some people are saying thatyouve tried to do too much.

Ravelstein: I dont think theyd know too much if they saw it.

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the Yarrows. Of course owing to the situation

row Pile lost on the run

man, pillow fluff location scout for HitchcocksBirds. He

ears dollars, a California Gothic mansion

cherry creamsicle rosette

mocking, flicking at the frayed nylon string on the tether pole

most Sally Yarrow. ripped silk cushions

rusting porch screen.

It grouchy fatalist with transparent sentimental apparatus,

Jed Yarrow Sr.

was night. Pine needles tipped

pissed in Pt. Reyes Station So the curse

very New

Carlotta; Amsterdam Avenue, finding an echo of the longing he ex-

foliated in her hothouse. thirty-five at

thick with old-growth tar in books for a liv-

. Villa Montezuma

that work, means youll never make any money!


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Jed,

housethe paint flake off the

Castle boot tooth mold made in the mud, perceived

the curled flake on the star-shaped thistle. That

sappy. But he wanted

wanted , esp. Carlottas

Prieta, ripping the lanes like wet paper

Art shattered like blown dandelions,

the chimney, drunk Are you nuts, or kidding?

Sally

her nickname) her cobweb skin flung with Sudafed moles

tether pole under the buzzing streetlamp...

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Three days after the big speech at N.O.W. sick.When Eloisethem theymetastasized Artwas gotas because

Artall anyJed and Sally. Hewhile Folgers tin of small change just inside the glasshothouse door

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finds a K Line brooding in TILE out +

up from the mister

the tile moves like skin over muscle

Where Sally sees the adolescentTriceratops grazingin loomy fern brake, feelsvertigo then realizesthe nature she haschanced on is all dioramaclimbing handover hand up the guide rail to the floodlit landing stripof Anthropology,Greek revival weeping tallowstraight from the PotomacSassafrasfairie ring daffodils and Ruffles transpondersThe Bureau of American Prosody

ethnoprosodytechnoprosody

freelancingcity hungers out to Cheyennevia Renoper Greyhound ($100 roundtripto Jeffersonworms

and embargo)72 hrs in the Paleo-bionic


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Meat is Murder t-shirt from a Wyo. thrift storeand never lost

herCenteerSunset at the western door, 9cloves of hallowed garlic for the Wiccan OCD

dubstepthe denizens of noteryearin the Sutro labyrinthbless Kryptonite key, sparking sage at 4 pointsquick set starry eyes in China Villagegrown boldermussels fried in crumbspanned out on the docks.And the wild boat whitened the bayof The Hectic Merrimack

all dressed inblack

on that eastbound non-stick bus

where successivepowers fell awayshifting her towardmore intimate and disorienting relationsaid her fortune cookie...

and one for the cut worm

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