will i?  will ya?
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		would like to retire early.

		my most important occupation is chasing girls
		to find a wife

		assuming once i have one in my teeth
		gently
		assuming i still have my own teeth
		said wife laughing -- put me down you dog

		i being sound and furry
		standing parked standing erect
		a golden retriever dalmatian beagle labrador mutt
		tail intersecting and waving the breeze
		at half the man -- fully drawn

		thoughtful -- stationary at last
		will i?  will ya?
		know what to do?
		a thought as i slobber all over the captive you

		drop and run?
		cache or carry?

		O k. and j. and b. and a.
		is this any reason
		to exert myself on behalf of
		the dreary windswept
		last catch stands?

		surely this event looks even surlier to you.

		is the counting of your eyewaters of their sparkle
		better now richer now more amusing now
		sweeter and achier now
		than it would be when
		as gleam as glint as twice-cooked sunrise
		as twice-sat e.r. admissions
		as twice held-cold anger
		kept in kitchens fogged in parks
		or hey dimming the ranch sky or crowding the hollow

		damn you damn you damn you not mine my love.  do or do-do.
		i think two of us should.  and would do.  chew on it.

		and sooo: grounds to ground control:  let the good dogs in.
		who's got next


			Marek Lugowski
			6 April 1998
			Chicago, Illinois