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bloom again in gray matter-o-fact afternoon
sub-urban grommets parallel aerial

planning circuits.  poised cable-ready on the
grid, home window-shopping network

of voyeurs listen for the assessor footsteps given
up for gleams of "for ever and for e-

ver"	porchlight property ascension
What abides who?  rhododendrons thick enough

for a six ounce kid to walk on bloodthinner
enough sap for twice that much in

medicaid pancakes.  waxing eliotic to the 
exclusion of pineappular buds, -- mud-timorous

fuddy-duddy in the demotic, wet-blanket -- that's not
it.  lap the grub salmagundi that unsettled roots

how to be sloppy, various, and full of holes w/out getting
soaked.  how to make your slip-n-slide liability free