Mom and Lori,  Lori, Lori, Mark Z, and Nat
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The jewels were set off long ago as fireworks

The shoe or the sheer wonder of a shiver

Provided whatever light it could

While I provided harness for a knot-bun

Of bone, sinew, and statistical analysist

Torso of a man, head of a ram

And all the glory that flows from a doner's clone:

Rag and bone shop, call it whatever.

Having never truly loved it and never truly followed

I cannot say I have lost it, except in myself

I have failed to act on my desire and lost where I had acted

On the practice fields of imaginary private schools.

Mom and Lori,  Lori, Lori, Mark Z, and Nat

I find it difficult to like or dislike appointments in INT.

They treat me so strangely there. They treat my body like a bag of meat

As they nudge it into the shapes it needs to be with a variety of well-used

Gear, some working some not, and a tucked shoulder, a forearm, 

A thigh and the curl of one ankle to resemble the perfect awkward, where

They leave me for fifteen minutes. After that time, I hear in the headphones,

"Are you ready, Mr.

And here's one from Lori!

And if you ever thought there was a good reason Sutro Tower needs an official poem, you could start a petition! I know a candidate!
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I write poetry and music.

My book of poems, Domestic Violence (under the name David Fox), was published by Vatic Hum Press in 2000, and my poems have appeared in dozens of journals, including Denver Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, Central Park, Tinfish, Orpheus Grid, o-blek, Blue Unicorn and Processed World, and have been anthologized in Writing From The New Coast. On line, I was Featured at 99 Poems for the 99%, and will appear in their upcoming print anthology.

My music is on MySpace under the names Twistyfix & Tawkey. I was the founding member of Johnny Nervous and the Disorders and have played with and in JNeo & The Content Providers and Vanilla Pussyfoot, and other bands too ponderous to mention. I once auditioned as a bassist for Frank Zappa. And I had a development deal with Atlantic Records for a while, which resulted in no recordings being released. Yay!

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