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by Soham Patel


























Panthalassa Pamphlet
May 25, 2017













nature calls forth so latrines
line good bay city along rows
of trees along railroad tracks

and the lines serve as borders
of course and what tracks depends
upon what we ate last night

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some tracks appear then
the nature of the soil deter-
mines print depth

paw or claw or foot

yesterday’s litter in addition
to a century’s worth of (s)weeping

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our brass cuirass is as queer
as the day is bright and shades





cobalt quarry home

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in our neighborhood

it’s not ours rather we’ve
been paying rent here
for a few years

a little over three—we’re all
a part of something

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wonder what your eyes
see and what the dog
is smelling

in island city we are
given keys in an envelope
we are a researcher’s
project

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in golden city Rosalie
said she could kill me

saw Poe’s
ghost shadow
in a post hurricane
house : haunted

told me it’s been
a long time in
French

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got a lot of paranoia ongoing

so go back
Into mountain pose
over and over

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to teach the self
a dead language
is one way to live

interned experience
lets us
click, like, etc.

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fam’s been asking where I am
with the animals

oh please listen
these sites
are meant to be
read again

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no one watched me
almost die in bridge-lined city

ask a stranger at the edge
what if someone jumped

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