8/20/2003

9th and Olympic - Tension

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A Korean restaurant window two For dinner three For dancing late At night, 11pm not morning Hostess answers the phone �Hello, make your perception,� The lines of tables line Up with the chair that Heads each group: a catalogue R rests sitting Next to the door entrance Counting, "14 24 53 95 14 24 53 95 14 24 53 95 14" R rests standing leaning back Against the wall next door entrance Speaking "Porch, poor, passage, entrance Screen door, hallway, corner Office exit, peeled orange" Not speaking "Take a disjunct thought Put it next to another Is this a tension?" A Tense situation depending On the time of day some Come for lunch others for breakfast Others later Others Eating fish or beef or pasta broccoli Fish on beef on pasta broccoli And fish the collection of those Inside trapped bound Discerned and baked