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plastic glitter in the art class glue
false sparkles on cardboard panoramas

the teacher was an arbitrary person
whose knack for inconsistency repeated

one week she gives me full marks on the project
another (same effort) she gave me a b

elegaic refractions of lost beams at dusk
hexagonal rhythms painted in a hall

incense burning as a fragrant wish
saltpeter tears in irritated flow

rainy anne has fallen fast asleep
under the artificial sun announced

the mattress never spurns my deep desire
to sleep tonight and never wake again

the romance of the pink field of dreams
weird in the palm powers and cable trees