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Denis Robillard
Pine Creek Clocks, c.1982
In a far off place I hear dueling clocks
in a room on a ranch
The burdens of the day lie deep and heavy
inside the entrails of these clocks.
Breathing, expanding,
exhorting themselves in slingshot time.
Above the scene a gun totting Brautigan
takes pot shots at these dueling clocks,
Poem bullets splitting targets
like rotten logs,
mind dangling metaphors
splitting amnesiac veil of booze
trying to find another blackberry motorboat,
or watermelon waterfall trapped underneath.
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