Lessness
A boy at the bus stop wears shorts that hit his
ankles and a shirt that hits his knees and a
backpack so small it could hold no more than
twelve grapes.


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Lo, victress on the peaks
Oil paintings line a room the color of smashed
raisins. Gustave Courbet: a man who painted
animals like they were humans and humans like
they were beasts. There is vegetation in the
portraits and lesbians in the bedroom. A nude
has corset markings on her back. No one is
not in the throes of something-- usually
suffering, sometimes boredom, mostly love.


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