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Provincial
Concerns
and
the
Recognition
that
Patrick
Swayze
is
the
Real
Enemy
avermitsky
I.
1
The
Point
that
Baby
Breaks,
2
Baby’s
first
words
were
live
my
life:
you
wanted
to
eat
3
on
the
meat
side
of
the
table
and
live
under
the
tomato
plants
4
Conservation
demanded
our
integrity
while
we:
5
boorish
and
unkempt,
straddled
work
and
charity
6
Our
best
intentions
crook
under
our
worst
faces
7
our
summer
parties
reek
of
cheap
shots
at
the
winter’s
air.
8
Her
motivation:
little
Baby
wishes
her
pen
pal
out
of
9
Anbar;
writes
with
determined
knuckles
swelled
at
the
thought
10
of
war,
and
when
will
mom
stop
serving
those
animals
finger
foods:
11
concessions
to
women
who
clean
faces
with
hand
soap
containing
the
smallest
12
hint
of
human
blood,
hint
of
what’s
to
come,
dirty
rumors
washed
with
13
discussions
of
me,
for
once:
I,
as
entity
living
in
a
confined
space
-
I,
as
14
host
to
problems
of
increased
governmental
leaning
–
How
we
can
afford
15
a
language
school?
Is
it
important
for
Baby
to
learn
French?
16
to
grow
with
grace
and
still
manage
meat
from
the
bone
–
finding
substantive
ways
to
say
17
Dieu
n'est
pas
dans
les
details.
Les
détails
sont
dans
Dieu
18
And
does
baby
mix
up?
Does
baby
lack
proper
translation
for
the
job?
The
orders?
What
forks
stab
at
What
concerns
us
is
Baby
has
been
saying
nobody
puts
her
in
a
corner:
19
she
has
found
American
video
and
sweaty
men
–
she
has
danced
with
American
buffets
full
of
choices:
the
fish
looks
palatable:
the
desert
looks
unsalvageable-
what
now?
20
II
21
sees
Ghosts,
22
Where
Toledo
was
made
saccharine
by
song;
wishing
wells,
23
good
to
see
you’s,
let’s
get
togethers
for
a
small
portrait,
24
ghosts
that
live
in
fall-out
shelters
on
the
shores
of
lake
Lake
Pontchartrain
25
Danny
got
his
drunk-on
up
in
Montreal
with
fighters:
glass-jawed
beasts,
26
targets
of
the
census
–
we
moved
westward,
our
eyes
sewed
shut
like
test
tube
27
babies
who
will
learn
how
to
dance
one;
snuck
looks
at
the
Tetons:
cosmic
laugh
28
angles
cut
by
parallel
weekends:
back
and
forth
from
rise
to
run
–
baby
who
will
29
learn
how
to
die,
haunt
us
with
summer
stock,
dinner
theater,
WASPy
nests
of
clay
30
-amber
preserving
the
memory
of
her
father
in
a
room
that
breathed
underwater
31
fishing
poles,
fishing
nets,
bottled
ships,
World’s
Greatest
Dad
plague(s)
under
32
the
teeth
of
old
men:
fedora
armies,
minds
set
on
children
who
would
find
a
way
33
home
to
stoops
of
Brooklyn,
hand
in
hand
for
Christmas
dinner:
amber
encased
rooms,
34
shrines
to
ghosts
that
live
in
kitchens,
that
don’t
want
to
go
to
bed;
please,
please
35
one
more
hour
36
III
37
road
side
bomb
houses,
38
Yet
they
are
an
angry
pride
of
eagles,
well-wishing
the
sky
away
with
thoughts
39
of
home
-
and
Baby
who
has
taken
a
new
lover:
the
suited,
successful
type.
40
Her
net
of
rhetorical
stickery:
Blue:
the
populace
as
welcome
host/holy
host;
country
with
greeting
banners
of
gun
muzzles
and
hemlock
for
afternoon
coffee
eager
think-tanks
41
We
always
thought
you
bigger
–
thought
you
able
to
pick
out
grains
from
the
dunes.
42
Instead
we're
sold
foaming
history
that
skips
hearts
with
shape-charged
chest
caves:
43
see-through
pupils
weaned
on
the
beckoning
paradise
of
repressed
sex
concerns,
44
static
electric
screens
that
crack
and
snap
at
ingrained
sword
and
sandal
faith
45
Patrick
Swayze
admires
a
desert
sunset
through
the
crosshairs
Discovery’s
newest
weapons
import
-
says
original
programming
used
to
be
about
the
dialogue
of
war:
46
the
decent
things
men
say
to
preserve
an
empire
–
now
left
to
large
scale
bar
room
brawls
where
anyone
hits
anyone
and
the
Rotary
Club
savages
the
prisoners
for
road
side
clean
up
rights
47
For
customs:
you
tip
the
tender
that
serves
you
poison,
you
watch
for
signs
of
over
saturation,
you
talk
strong
men
out
of
overplaying
their
hand
–
discourage
back
room
sleaze
fucking
48
Frances
Houseman
will
wait
for
you
in
the
Catskills
–
she
is
having
the
time
of
her
life.
49
She
takes
traditional
Jewish
levelers
to
bed
under
a
blanket
of
mountain
air
–
she
dreams
50
of
unknown
war
–
of
“gloves
on”
duel
custom
–
of
presidents
unafraid
to
take
a
bullet
51
while
you
dance
and
surf
and
fight
under
cover
of
God’s
original
sky
mold:
decaying
52
tape
that
turns
eager,
romantic
gestures
into
violent
subjugation:
too
much,
too
much
53
rewinding
of
a
pleasant
memory
–
or
constant
rental
of
what
is
not
ours:
borrowed
54
America
it’s
time
to
come
home
for
dinner
-
time
we
talked
about
movies
like
they
were
55
important
–
time
to
forgo
the
blood
beat
of
the
war
dance
for
popcorn
and
sore
wisdom
56
Baby
prays
for
rebirth
in
placeholder
beds
of
cowards;
prays
for
absent
men
who
would
57
bring
back
proximity
threats
that
pulsate
in
sun-dressed
groins:
deep
rich
throbs,
58
heartsick
wants
to
soundtrack
the
earth
59
IV
60
and
ultimately
questions
the
sincerity
of
her
leading
man.
61
as
if
he
said
secret
in
muted
tones
of
62
grey,
as
if
you
wanted
his
name
to
be
63
soft
–
or
sacred.
as
if
you
worried
his
midnight
64
be
crows
feet
clicking
on
the
edge
of
the
Catskills
65
click
click
66
baby
remains
dumbfounded
about
punishment
67
heaped
on
organisms
devoid
of
brains
68
in
cell
form
69
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