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Collected Poetry

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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  The Evening Light Displaying Its Face Cards


Certainly there was substance in the afternoon's condigned
movement which did suggest just enough presence
to approach the evening as adversary—an anticipation
that should prove disturbing, yet the background music

was so deftly conceived, languid and streetwise,
that it required at least a passing interest.  The lure
of promise once again hoped only for consent—
your preference of the imagined scenarios.  Meanwhile,

Miguel, the bus boy, honestly provides his thorough,
supplicant attention; this too only adding to the relative
distraction of why:  when your straight decides to fill
and stands long enough to take the sizeable hand

it is accepted as a sign of your discretionary beliefs,
their apparent margins, and the currency of your volition.



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