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Forbidden thoughts, brazen phrases
Held back in the years of silent ainthood.
Good behavior. Conduct E for excellent.
Weep, Alice, if you want to, howl!
Make it rain, a deluge
Of N’s for needles from your eyes.
Your many I’s. Your multitudes.
Be foment, Alice, ruckus, tirade, trouble,
And if you wish, wish three times.

Wish them out. Write them null.
Blacken their bodies with ink.
Gorge them on sublimated sweets
Until they reel and fall
Beneath your dancing feet.

(130)

Multiply by words, Alice—
Your airborne army spits spears,
Cracks syllables, breaks glass
Spews fury skyward.
The hundred tricksters
In flight on the page are you,
A swarm of grins penciled in
While oval heads are trampled underfoot,
Or name the Gorgon in the mirror
Alice. The monster twin, the other story,
Whose mouth blasts killing winds,
Forbidden thoughts, brazen phrases

“My father had not been a yeller…I don’t want to think of her”

Pg 65-70
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