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PORE SUSPENSION

I’m having a hard time making ends meet

So what, my suit is tan, that is the style

What with the grocery bills being

What they are. Do you have the same trouble

Now. And you know damn well that that is the way

Adding 2 and 2 and getting uneasy,

Strange numbers you never thought existed before?

I like it: when the style changes so does my tie;

It is not really the strangeness you are

Talking about. It might be the coloring,

You can hear me huffing (puff) (puff)

But never the strangeness. That is beastly.

Or, at least hot. The numbers creeping up

Going down the street away from your door

Behind you in your head, as you sit smoking

The ash growing longer with the hours.

After you have had the last word in the conver-

It is the longest cigaret

You ever smoked.

Sensationally, speaking of our love, it is on the fritz,

Part of the new german-french lover from ‟New Vague”

Invading the number system