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grief notes:

rob mclennan

BlazeVOX [books]Buffalo, NY


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grief notes: by rob mclennanCopyright 2012Published by BlazeVOX [books]

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproducedwithout the publishers written permission, except for briefquotations in reviews.

Printed in the United States of America

Book design by Geoffrey Gatza

First EditionISBN: 978-1-60964-066-8Library of Congress Control Number: 2011940640

BlazeVOX [books]76 Inwood PlaceBuffalo, NY 14209

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says, dont sit there; technicolour,trace cold & carbon skin

at the edge of pain,life happens

no recollectionof ordinary things, a silence

poured mercury-deep,grew constant, more confused

what isbut the whiteness

, moon, increasingtear,

made visible by loss,


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a far & constant symmetry,gesticulated,

a memory, at having left

so help me; tell methat the earth is flat, & crumbles

thin, the edge

avoid falling, falling; mouthis always wrong, answers

speech out, certain words

red eyes, the middleof a mid-step, night

straight, in their surroundings


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held, to my attraction; halfway through the recipe,the sweethearts of the tables offering

heard her say the possibilitiesof trust,

miles past & borders; dream,these larger rooms,

these trenches,

legs wet, aboveour knees,

cry out spontaneity; a callof parting, parts

no matter what, we knowwe know we matter

no matter what gets said,

because dialogue no longer exists,oppresses;


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cold, I reach downsuddenly; what hope through bars,

a two-way traffic,

sentences, fillwith ice,

the last roomdown a corridor;

echo out lessserious remarks; a language

marked with snarks, & sneers

; what matters?whats the (even) point?

sky turns black; the dishescome to forefront,

broke,


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the past tense, journeyingthis forth-and-back

useless; candlelight,the ship was prone to sink

another piece of good advice; stayquiet, keep

to small;

a pot with holes, on purpose


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the broad lines of a housein vanier, wept

close enough to sorrow

constructingto expand,

gone beyond those dull lights, full& even;

by day the balding lake,by night a slip of limbs

drift back into seclusion

surface parched & smootha dream of depth, a coating,

it formed; a rain of splattered hearts,limp bodies,


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a cartoon mouse, the brick,the cartoon cat,

the moonis filled with iron ore

& jade

made up from my tongue; thin smokeas flat as a (precisely) page

or headache,

numbers; words,she says, another

youtube link,

cinematic scenes to code, unending,heartbreak songs,

dont matter, says,matter,

do you,


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we add a drawer to shock,embellish,

on, & on

the redness of eyes; a caution,sand & soup & severance,

says, cant live in a shell

what takes it? marked the edgeswith the skin of a lion, string

robed in rose gardens: empty, insect hopes


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