ART TIP

                       from Dante

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I hear the music of the spheres

sounds really great

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if you have

a good seat.

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THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH

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Don't write

anything new

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and don't say

anything old

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let’s just agree

that the sky

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is struggling

to hold

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its blue

plus the ice

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is less

spectacularly cold

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the ocean

not quite

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as wet

what with all

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the microplastic

creamed through it

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the sum of the packaging

torn open

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churned in the water

the leftovers

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of the gleam of the new

now occupying its own

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continent worth

of surface

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a dull shine

when the sun’s out.

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EVERYONE’S A POET

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Isn’t “always”

a little overrated

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and maybe a word

that should be polished

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and placed

on the mantel

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for occasional inspection?

Shiny.

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Always shiny.

You’ve got to

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give it that.

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SELF-IMPROVEMENT

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Put down your puppet strings

and come out with your hand

sat your sides, relaxed, bipedal,

bicameral, two of everything

mostly. Myriad-mindedness,

there you go.

The rest is up to you.

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