In vie Ron meant, a list

You, out th'(hair).
Words float.
Catch me, caught me, 'cost me.
Can you see...
by Don's early light?
He flicked the Zippo II
too soon, Use your head.
Double that for trouble that
is why my eyes are still in gl(ass) jars
lying in the kitchen.
Bitchin'
at me, Mom. I love you.
I can sea that,
but pickle tickle juice
troubles the doubles
seen, mean-
ing I'm hungry...
4 food less
than knowledge?
Shouldn't bee t(hat) way.
Pick up (s)ticks.
Black one disturbed, unnerved, reserved, blur(red).
Cast the sideways glimpse 2C if my battleship
is sunk. Not yet.
Coffee club glubbing
the-near-here melting_________.
Horse, you say
and sway to be shod.
Eye destroy as do ewe.
We are knot as...(s) diff(rent).
The sTAKE was too r(hair) and bloody
when THEy herded the (cat)tle mooing/mewing
and wHINT to the-where-they-wanted-2B.
Build me unbuilt.
Knot even vap(or) trails, molecules,
nun.
Slaughtered, daughtered, and sold
to t(he) "High"-est bid/bib.
Childr(hen), eat the spinach 2Develop.
Pop-eye said sew.
Needle beetle seed.
A word fl(oats for horses unshod).
Green seen diff(rent)ly
XS bless-
ing...2Easy.
Where are trees?
et cetera

-Rachel Johnson, February 24,1993

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