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The bottles with coors in ‘em

CEE

The fireplace has the room lit fine
Flipped coin of directors shooting night scenes
At noon
Decanters predominate
They’re on every shelf
Underneath Christian pix
That hopeless old woman and hopeless old man
Praying over Oliver Twist’s gruel
Decanters full of red, blue, full of
Yellow, an almost-gold
A St. Paddy’s green, there’s a
The bottles are polished by the hopeless old landlady
They’re clean
The water, food-colored, is clean
The decanter bottles swell rich in the firelight
Gorgeous cut-glass, they are powerful,
Clean
They give, they
Enrich
I close my eyes and still see this illusion
I close my eyes and see a cleancut George Carlin
Doing “Hippie-Dippie Weatherman” on Merv
Behind my eyelids
Lies that were real
Then

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