moocat.net - poetry - Flashpoems, cont'd, by Luis Alberto Urrea

21.	Crows shit into the Grand Canyon nature lovers
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22.	deer freeze car radio passes
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23.	A wedge of crying geese rusts in empty sky.
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24.	October signifying October
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25.	Glove caught in roadside tree waves to pilgrims who'll not return.
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26.	coffee in a Kansas gas station the wind big rigs nude magazines looking everywhere for home
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27.	Snaketown, Twilight Zone, Kansas. Old building behind a gas station. "6 Legged Steer" Alive! "5 Legged Cow." Dead cars and wrecks parked in weeds across the front to lure wanderers in: looks like ghosts of Interstate midnight pulled up to spend $5 on the rattlesnake pits, the mutant animal zoo. Oakley, Kansas ground to powder by scudding black pumice of clouds. Wooden pits with chicken wire roofs give up the smell of rattles, snakes, skin, snakeshit, dead mice, poison. The man at the counter bangs on the wire: panicked sizzle of rattles rising, behind him rattlesnake heads, snake skin belts, snake teeth, snake head baseball caps, snakeskull belt buckles. Out back, 6 legged steers, coyotes dreaming of the prairie, badgers pacing concrete. Tornadoes vector in on us, and the man behind the counter tells us these jokes: Yesterday we had a baby snake that broke out crying. Boo-hoo. Boo-hoo. You know why? because he broke
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28.	his rattle! Hey! It's Saturday. Do you know what cows do around here on Saturday nights? Go to the moo- vies!
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29.	her legs converge twin stems one black lily
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30.	Snow flakes pat ter soft as eye blinks

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