Deciduous Matter
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By Matt Gill
There’s a lump suspended from an oak. It’s wrapped professionally in a sequined top,
But looks conspicuously like a disembodied baby leg – no – a baby’s leg - because I’m pretty sure it belongs – belong ed – to someone and even though I don’t know them, it feels like I know them – like I knew them – like we knew them
♪ Are you, are you - swinging in the tree? 🎵
Open wings – they say? To me seems they swing more like broken – wings Perfectly perpendicularly clipped – wings Purposefully Picasso-fied – wings Preemptively struck-by- great-balls-of-fire - wings Didn’t get a chance to s oar be- FORE – wings
♪ Are you, are you - swinging in the tree? 🎵
American violence is the oldest living white oak tree. Its roots run deep, holding steadfast in its turbulent, homemade-muddy waters. Its branches press ever outwards, consuming all aerospace, updowns and sideways, crisscrosses and diagonal ways, leftways and rightways,
northways and southways, no atom unscathed – ways .
♪ Are you, are you - swinging in the tree? 🎵
Its murderous rage like a swarm of Japanese Giant Killer Hornets invading a neighboring honeybee residence. It finds deep pleasure – jubilance even – in using its mandibles to first decapitate the honeybees' heads before systematically moving on to consume the entirety of the hive.
HVWP COMMONPLACE 8
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