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  five thousand poems from Speed and How to Obtain It by Chris Jackson

 

I. WHAT DOES SPEED IMPLY?

He's not an old man but his elbow
hurts regularly. He wants to buy
a home and hang above the front door

a sign singing , "Superheroes
live here," but Sleeping Beauty mightn't
like it. What does it imply? Something

about making teen parties click,
about P's slender finger under
the latch, lifting up-something about
machines: these machines that are not

little houses but shine when you
uncup your hands. Have you heard
the fast guitar? Have you heard
the motorcycle going faster past you?

 
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