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the day the flag became
a barcode
veterans lined up for
free stickers
they stuck them to their
cars
they gave them to their
children
they filled up their
tanks
they drove to the malls
and stores
overcome with joy at the
barcodes
on each and every selection
but the day came when
the enemy
slapped barcodes on
their turbans
the armies, they slammed
together
in a violent discussion
over numbers
after their own numbers
thinned
each side limped back
home
and looking at their own
barcodes
wondered why the barcodes
didn’t just fight for
their own
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through a window crack
i see destinations and
the people they pull
squeak of the
floorboards
years of pressure added up
someday i will squeak
“circling the drain”:
what a lovely way to say
death is near, okay?
if everything comes
from the same clump of atoms
then i am jesus
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