If time is an arrow, what is its target
 If a Flexible Flyer is the sled I had as a child, when may I become a child again
 Do you need help digging the potatoes out of your garden of insults
 Do you plan to vote in the next election
 Is our country headed in the right direction or the wrong direction
       and what did the bulldozer tell the yellow helmet’s ear
 Which part of your body is like biting into a ripe peach
       which part shames you like a rotten banana
 Would you like to find out how to lower your interest rate
 When you go to heaven how old will you choose to be
       will you have cocktails on the well-watered lawn
             where Bach conducts Bach
 Will you still chase after the Grateful Dead
       dot dot dot   dear pocks   pocking the surface   dot dot dot
 Can it be like snow falling on the ocean
 Can desire drown you like syrup over pancakes
 When an ambulance siren wakes you at 3 a.m. do you feel relieved
       not to be strapped to that stretcher
             speeding toward the grim unknown
                    do you then snuggle next to someone
 Are you satisfied with your detergent
 Can you name a more perfect irony than the new world trade center, sacred icon of
       capitalism, revered lingam of profit, soaring above the 
memorial pools
                     of people killed when the first towers fell
 Can you describe the scent of dried blood
 What about the smell of iron chains in your cell
       can you sing the threnody of the maggots
 When I removed my mask did I frighten you
       like a drone crossing your sky
 Are you satisfied with your auto insurance
 When ecstasy approaches why do you resist
       What are you afraid of
              Can you please unbutton your shirt now












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