keep it to yourself
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write it down

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language being only social
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banks with the most branches are shadiest

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you're so alienated you don't even know it
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of course i took it as a compliment

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(from 'Lines', in David Bromige's The Harbormaster of Hong Kong)


Once again, it's the discovery of a little form that allows something to happen. Bernadette Mayer pulls this off again and again.