Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 11

Saturday, March 11

sign on the window: “chair for rent”

dissolving: poems printed on chocolate sheets

how many amulets in monk

she said you can’t take pictures or walk your dogs in the desert to pee
without paying ten bucks

tourists who don’t pay are blindfolded

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skin conceives its own departure

bones in her eyes a promise she can’t explain vase
with vertical notches

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15 minutes, five times a day

skin speckles with adhesive infection
skin acclimates in cleavage

15 minutes, five times a day

skin smears with amulet contestants
skin disguise as folded shirts

15 minutes, five times a day

scissors scrape skin as prize
skin prefers mistakes in cleavage