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for Erwin Carney
I. Anomaly
What have I become
By the broken rule of thumb
Is my total greater than my sum?
If not famous not yet infamous
Anomalously anonymous
Never any good at keeping score
Having been for many maybe more
Better now than I was then before
I am like I am like you but me
Ultimately an anomaly
II. Lancean Lunch
It has gotten to be in my extremity
Butter toffee peanuts and mango madness punch
Constitute a positively Lancean lunch
Or maybe that is all for the day anyway
But all in all after the fall enough for me
At the luckiest time of all on Saturday
At 7:11 as good a time to be
As any of the many I have been before
And having been in spite of it all to be more
Life keeps going on and I keep keeping on too
My heart beating breathing in and out as I do
Only I am lonely here alone without you
III. Existential
I have never been so existential
My existence so inconsequential
Being homeless is the best way to be
If you want to be existentially
Not that I chose I was given the hose
Out on my ear to be alone out here
But by the means of the ends of my friends
Sheltering I wait to see how this ends
+Steven Curtis Lance
Image: My new address is a box in this little store.
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Sandie