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Rhode Island
Is Neither A Road
Nor An Island

“give me a second, I’m almost done
with this silly game”


You can capitalize anything you want
but I can tell you to “capitalize this baby”
just to be mean, just to be cruel

there’s a reason why I don’t write poetry
and a reason for why I don’t live in Rhode Island
and why I’m mean, and cruel and unjust

it has something to do with capitalizing
people have always been capitalizing on me
and I’m getting tired of being there for everyone


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This poem is also in the book OEUVRE.

Oeuvre