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everyone's
dying
everyone’s
dying to die
everyone's
in my way
on my way to
die
it's too hot
and dusty to die
I am eating
the ashes of the dead
I am eating
the exhaust of cars
I am dying
to die
I am an
image sacrifice
I am looking
for a boat to take me to heaven
namaste
your boat
has bad karma
out of the
way
I am burning
inside of shame
I am at the
seat of the ash
of time
of guatama
of a boat to
nowhere
burning
inside
I am the end
of time
shiva orange
rat queen
goddess of
money
sleeping in
time to die at the hands of doms
sunrise to
sunrise from the beginning of time
alone at the
end of time
rowing
nowhere to wash my soul
lost in
serpentine alleys and back ways
amongst the
amputees and water buffalos
amongst
entrepreneurs that will cut your throat
amongst the
dust breathing souls
looking in
the eyes of the ones
looking back
for anything
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kari
edwards is a poet, artist and gender
activist, received one of Small Press
Traffic's books of the year (2004), New
Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature
(2002); and is author of obedience,
Factory School (2005); iduna, O Books
(2003), a day in the life of p. ,
subpress collective (2002), a diary of
lies - Belladonna #27 by Belladonna
Books (2002), and post/(pink) Scarlet Press
(2000). edwards' work can also be
found in Scribner's The Best American
Poetry (2004), Civil Disobediences:
Poetics and Politics in Action, Coffee
House Press, (2004), Biting the Error:
writers explore narrative, Coach House,
Toronto, (2004), Bisexuality and
Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others,
Hawoth Press, Inc. (2004), Experimental
Theology, Public Text 0.2., Seattle
Research Institute (2003), Blood and
Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard,
Painted Leaf Press (2000), Aufgabe,
Tinfish, Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's
Ear, Amerikan Hotel, Boog City, 88: A
Journal of Contemporary American Poetry,
Narrativity, Fulcrum: an annual of poetry
and aesthetics, Pom2, Shearsman, and
Submodern Fiction. kari can always be
contacted at k.e.terra1 at gmail dot com.