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Michael Mlekoday, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN.
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in at least a thousand worlds i walk
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into a fern forest and never return
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in 37 of those worlds i die of thirst in
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a week
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skin brittle as dried birch jealous of
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the underworld’s long harvest of rain
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a hundred and twice i live for decades
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longer
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foraging mushrooms like mushrooms forage
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the dead rising and declining by the
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season
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in another thousand worlds i never leave
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the city there i’m still spilling
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nickels on plexiglas counters for
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chemical relief i feed my ego nightly
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like a dive bar jukebox i assume i’m
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rich in some worlds
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in one of those ones i write a
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blockbuster about all the hungry
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versions of me voyaging the divide to
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hunt down their moneyed and monocled
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twins and bloody their driveways
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in another one i evict my mother’s
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evictor
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is it enough
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does it ripple the worlds like guano
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does a garden does another me count as
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me if i am my own quantum sister
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back in the forests i encounter genders
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vast as worlds hummingbird
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conifer
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schizophylum’s gills like angel down
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i learn there is a season for everything
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a wood guided wind pollinates the many
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worlds with a single shiver
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a thousand leaves unfurl
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