MIPOesias~ISSN1543-6063~Volume 19 ~ Issue 2, 2005

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Two Answers, Four Questions,
One Statement of Fact,
Three Useless Platitudes,
and One Unfinished Thought






Justin Chin


Punctuate accordingly:

I can travel anywhere with additional pain

I was willing to be easy but then things got complicated so damn quickly

The slow sad waltz of my favourite perversion

My theory is that there are only four kinds of suffering and two kinds
of joy that exists in the entire world
We just pass them around back and forth, on e-bay, at flea markets, and
in the dust we inhale

What is apology but anthropology without its or nth degree
What is shellfish but selfish

If it’s not butter, it can be fried in butter

How mesmerizing is that montage of cats falling off television sets,
backs of sofas, kitchen tables, and assorted shelving units

Does invincibility have more to do with persistence rather than the
possession of superhuman traits or is it dumb luck

Like telling an ant it is a lion, but an antlion is something else
altogether

Like eating a really good hamburger on the sluicing floor of the
abattoir

Shit in a bag and punch it

For the version of how things will end we have yet to write
Who’s to say how this won’t end

Oh look, a typo in the Rosetta Stone

 

 
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