| The Last Laugh by Michael Tartàglia, © 2000 |
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Shinto taken the samurai Heated winds killed the fire Stripped ciff side intaglios Caught by foreign telescopes Snowflakes sift through silky screens To selfish selves with skin so clean Nuclear mid-winters miff Natives cut by shrubberies Sesquipedalian citites Failing physiography But winning magnificently She's a silent anonymous trickster So what do we need in her? |
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