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Boom
Midland, Texas

In these grassless
pastures a hand

the one who pigs
the pipelines clean.

Big Bear is a hitch
& fish the word

for whatever gets
dropped in the bore.

Here, horses of crude,
your heaven wheezes.

In the bar that boy
with Nashville teeth

sings all the money
back to sleep.    

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   Contributor’s notes

   Boom
   From Which the Method of Drawing in Space between the Trees Instead
       of the Trees Themselves Might Well Be Employed
   In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing
   Jean Valentine Was Here
   Nine Miles outside Comfort, Texas
   The Oldest Story

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