Morning Song

By Sawako Nakayasu

Every time, these days, it seems, an equation gets forced. Forged:

far cry
______

low rise

and every morning sticks, figure A, for alas, stick figures, it
figures that we awaken in the same rectangle at different points on the time
line, these every days the sum of all our

angles, a beyond-complementary
rate, exceeding three hundred sixty, then three hundred sixty-five, three
hundred seventy

days, and angles, a supersaturated moon. Also it is morning
and I am far

from and I cry.

The last ditch grows deeper and I stuff the
world into a quadratic of words, for example: But-I-love-you.
Place-in-the-box. Pass-the-god-damn-butter.
That’s four against three. Far against which cry.

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