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These things keep coming to me in the night...

  

I DON’T KNOW

  

I hear myself

say these words

a hundred times

a day, Coyote says:

I don’t know. 

and when I get

tired of hearing

I don’t know,

I say, I have no

idea, or I don’t

have a clue, or

sometimes even

are you kidding

me or ask me

another.  Coyote

marvels daily at

the vast universe

of his not-knowing.

And even then

knows not enough

to know how much

he does not know.

LICKETY SPIT

  

There are times

when Turtle envies

Coyote his dexterity,

licking himself clean

all over, head to toe,

even cock and balls

and asshole.  Which

evidently Turtle

finds himself ill-

disposed to do.

  

RUN, RUN

Times are

Coyote desires

nothing more

than to run,

run, run away,

to borrow words

from David

Byrne of the

Talking Heads.