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there the toilet seats are gold, pen in hand, pen
doesn't work
Get him a pencil -- But sir, pencil wouldn't be
      legal.

This is my life boy, and I feel like I'm in trouble.

Civil War Valentine's Day Massacre
shoot ten shoots one shoots the shit bamboo
      shoots heroine
MP's list worst places than the barracks and
      home: DMV
Which one? Viet-
nam or Viet-
cong? Kong?
The room is quiet, deadlocked,
      padlocked
beneath a magazine below me



newspaper folded; newspaper opens wounds,
pass the salt:

                  Bomb Blast
                        Al-Rahabat Boulevard.

8.
                                  Huh? --
                                                  -- The Dead I Bury.




Michael James Martin lives in California.