The Floor 16

with Kimberly Green

with K.G. Superstar

with Guy Cohen and Dorthea Porter

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the ambivalence
is measured out

like jiggered

cocktails.

I rot

from the nearby sea

like brown

and red driftwood

where when the sand embraces

and the salt mist surrounds

it's a

perfect day

Without thoughts of

recourse or counterpoint,
Without screed or creed

I stumbled cross

The parched pavement-

where once green things grew,

but now are paper maiche'd and

stuck together with clumps of re-melted wax

Looking, a glance,

I continue to hurt

where the top and bottom

get cut up and off and

sliced through

like a thoroughbred's ligaments

when they're

lame and useless.