Found Poem

I took words & phrases out
of a textbook, two songs and one movie,
wrote them on scraps
of papers, threw them
in the air. This is how they landed.

the term is mimetic
Sufficient moments.

Do as the band says
so the band says: "Don't
be a whore." Annihilation
of beginnings, everyone crying
as they see your paradise
stolen, not lost. "Theft,"
so the band says, "assigning
theft to moths. Don't be
don't be a nuclear...

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I turned Ginsberg
upside down but I couldn't
change the color of his side-
burns.

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small Hispanic boys shout
at my car, windows
rolled up, from a street
corner in front of some
red place called Alfio's
 
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But a very clear image
of four people, half
in shade, the sun on their feet
father, mother
daughterson, brother.