THE MOUTH OF THE BAY

MICHAEL RUBY

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Buffalo, New York
The Mouth of the Bay
by Michael Ruby
Copyright © 2019

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ELEA

There's no beginning
and there's no end

There's a beginning
and there's an end

There's a beginning
and there's no end

There's no beginning
and there's an end

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BLESSED IS FAILURE

The worlds flame out

Straightened by chance

You know fandangos

Punish every dawn

Smatterings of small planes

Improve fat cigars

Importers of grasshoppers
Sounds amounting to nothing

It's funny about the water

Berry berry everywhere

At the bottom of mouthing

Aimless safety fulfills

The answers to laughter

Run the risk of rancor

Noise mounts from shadows

The birds want something

Everything wants something

Except the red montage

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LAST THINGS

Superior harpies salvage my snapping

Over the long goodbye
To sliced onions

Superior fallacies smart

The shiny bone in her slope
A summation of fish

Oh well, hate cures ants

Superior neatness likens them to onions
On fire with justice

Grasshoppers cure no bones

Fain to sanity
On the open stretches to disease

Superior cleanliness reaches the balm

A plastic gathering of salts
Slipping through our fingers

Superior onions hasten the downfall

Of importuning and hasty slavery
In the fish jar

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“THE EARTH IS HELD UP BY NOTHING”

–Anaximander

Then light falls happy and sous

Forecasts ovens sanitary hope
Applicants rising half forever
Mice for fancy investigations

Then naps interfere with smallness

Boats squawk horrid anecdotes
Today slopes handy sputum
Upon rocks turning to gas

Then sap masters lasting pass

From omniscience through tunnel taste
Opening swamps to black booths
And aphasias of willpower and arms

Then monstrous lace assays bloop

Along true poodle outlooks
Malicious bone for every thought
Superior reference to infamy

Then Manitou sleeps slaphappy

Dazed by pink distresses leak
Over applications the blame
Simple charts fasten harps

Then Hondo smells green too

Inflamed raisins heighten disrepair
On offal daisy increments
Take the answer to stuffing back

No Charlemagne cancels point

Of honor shrunken characterized
Top basketball owned pure
For humid sake of ice tree

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THE ONE AMONG THE MANY

Soft cramps displace sorry maelstroms

Soft in Plutonic evening ingredients
Massive laughter shocks home blood
Blood erases satisfaction days alive
Blood slaking bondage appropriate main
Know toothy alien seeping mace
Little zigzags before brace alert
Little face to fasten reasoned rue
Soft casements crease leather openings

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“THE EARTH USED TO BE COVERED WITH WATER”

–Xenophanes

Apropos

Atropos

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THE BLUE AND THE GREEN

is forever and forever

most needed

The blue and the green

takes me to the hydrants
I once loved
before “savage indignation”
“an age of prudence”
and eleven reasons
to correspond with
whowhatwhenwhere

upon such rocks

this season

The blue and the green

practices the scales of chance
and topples the exaggerations
with a scoop
a notable forecasting device

The blue and the green

delegates respectful
worthwhile life etc.

The blue and the green

is always outside or inside

The blue and the green

preserves the outermost point

tragically asks
exasperates

The blue and the green

is left as it was found

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“PURIFICATIONS”

–Empedocles

Purifications mesmerize the likeness of good and bad

The twelfth lecture on ergonomics

The first lecture on cryogenics
Transgenics

Purifications elevate the severance

From the need
To premiumize the sacred

Perhaps another
Momentum of
Process of
Anderson
Organization

Is there an antidote

Purifications accessorize the damning facility for the legislation of arbitrary aims
and took with teeth most practiced flamethrower under the moon

Purifications parse
The Dickens
Out of regions far and wide
Without songs to pipe
To recommend
Anguish
Summa Theologiae

The thing is
Easy does the estimable borax

Thoracic
Intergalactic

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The thing is
Ambulances press on the nerve
Of heart and hopscotch

In solemn
Somersaults
Someday unhaunted

Purifications unhaunt

Purifications unhaunt the microscopic mansions

Manson’s mansion

Purifications exaggerate the pain

Purifications touch the exasperation

Purifications poke a hole in the statuary

Oh don’t don’t bean
Lemon leftovers
Marbles for our prognosis

Purifications pursue this end

Without regard for consequences
Yeah yeah yeah

Purifications improvise a hut

Positivize deputize
Duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh duh

Patience for
Passion for
Aggravation for

Another category
For Jesus
Judge
Correctional facility
Correction
Tomás
Celan

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THE PURE

What are the words of God

(Not the roar of a boat)
Emil Abdul Drinka
Together we master the forces
I don’t want to die in a state of sin
The wakes lead nowhere
The pressure is eternal

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WHAT IS THIS THE REMNANT OF?

Fish or fowl
Flow or counteroffer

Have you fathomed

Have you levitated

Invisible hands
Frigate
Imposition
Lock and key
Organize

To pray prayerfully
Against the will
Of big God and little god
That presupposes
After all the currents possess
After the foreclosure of precision

To race
Blacken
Whiten

What is this the remnant of

The need for purification

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 “WRETCHES, STAY AWAY FROM BEANS”

–Pythagoras (quoted by Empedocles)

Faces mark the purple horizon

After fatigue, the tooth
The heathen manufactured these signs of discord
The blue abracadabra
Almondine and ultramontane
So my bones invade the regulations
Emphasize collapse
Awful forked lozenge of repair
Re-enfranchised and otherwise present in recognition of cesium funding–

Wizards live on droppings

Sediment
Measure for marketplace for margarine

Now what is to be digested

Doesn’t the normal channel operate with a chance disregard for the elementary
blinking of dice in the oven, red pinpricks, callous properties of all the morning
news we have to offer by pride of place and price

Wretches
Wretches wretches
Precisely here, in this answering machine
In this amplified ballyhoo
In this allegorical besting

To characterize the mistreatment of person

Blanked and fulfilled
Built on a mismeasurement of organdy
Opportunity
Time and its recognizable mystifications
Oh no Narragansett Tupperware eleven zero three
Ice cream region
Pollywog prosecution
Abnormal messaging mollifies

* * *

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Stay away from beans
It’s the most obvious thing in the world

Stay away from beans

Can’t you see there’s a horse on the horizon
A horse that takes coffee with sugar
Of course, it’s the most obvious thing in the world

Stay away from beans

The procedure doesn’t work
In the movie, the wizard slips into the fire stairs and emerges on another floor

Stay away from beans

People don’t always know what they eat
They don’t always understand what they eat
They don’t always know what they understand

In this addition, in this testimony

The omen begins with a wrong toll on suspicion
There’s no other way this can be understood

* * *

Stay away from beans

A secret lives in the crystal reckoning
Leathery, pregnant, altogether blended
And harassed for the muggy suffrage
Material brocade for

Stay away from beans

Brethren of feathers
Nameday of heather
The saying umbilical
The staying philological

Umber almond and mesmerizing

Purgatory of needs to adjudicate

* * *

Stay away from beans

Can’t you see
The regulations break our faces
The positive effects wear off

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 Stay away
From beans
There’s hardihood to bleed

Stay away from

Beans
This nasty predilection
This sensible outcome
This regulated

* * *

Stay away from beans

Keep the horse on the right
The tracks on the right

Mesmerizing, applicable to all tables

Stay away from beans

Can’t you see the marks on the straw
Restless
Provoked
Liable to
Slime–

Stay away from beans

Afterward on the channel
Necessity opens
Without parking
On the median
Now’s the time for prosperity

Stay away from beans

Park on the right with the weather

Stay away from beans

This is a day to learn
right from wrong
Horses pock the lampshade
Taffy
Railing

Ombudsmen

Without further ado

The navy
Enters
the position

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Stay away from beans
Monstrosities
Present their credentials curtsey
The General the monocle
Maybe the past

Stay away from beans

Seasons
Keckle
Emmon Brather
Then the saw cuts through green flesh

* * *

Stay Away From Beans

Please remember to close the door
Please read the instructions
Please

Stay away
from beans
on the father
circumstance
practiced

Stay away
from beans
seedlings
of levity
and disputes
and takeaway
and giveaway

Without dressing
in positive colors
the disdain
the soda
the very prestigious ether
and appurtenances
slipshod–cascading–
draining memory of–definitions–

presuming to–impatient–
mesmerized–hesitate–
health threat–no no–
propane–basket case–

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 soda–ice cream–
privacy–myasthenia gravis–
prostate–regatta–
soda–dodo–
propane–sandwich shop–

* * *

Stay away from beans

The very real sediment of aging
People for forceful interrogations
Actors in the scene’s French friend
Pelted by blissful cigarettes
Diamond openings
Tiger mice
Fat instant of puckered severances
Punishment–raillery–Magoo–
Bruce–sumac–hooey–
Regulation–sesame–pizza–

Stay away from beans

Semantic mouthpiece aside
Hide the

Stay away from beans

The hour never comes
Without this hesitation
Practice without perfect
Mesmerizing America
Ribosome
Placates the dressing table
I saw it filmed
Modified

To milk the corresponding ice

The flight houses objections

And honestly forecasts
Stay away from beans

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FURTHER REACHES

An implicit
On-again off-again
Sizing arena
To tool & correspond
Without emerging on behalf
Rather–

Size ate a hole

In the pants of lighted
Bollixed & resolute
Angry without reason
Talk of process
Talk of halt
The same plagues
Winsome
Suppositions
Drugstore life
Top heavy arena
Arena of displeasure
Minding the store
The guitar
Perky & minx
Precise & lynx
What avails
The historic
Omniscience
The veils
In their happy
& hostile
feathery wastes

Pique & apply

A certain
Measured
Resonance
To otherwise
Beautiful
Mercury

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 They process the adventure in our sandstone. Don’t you see, the measles have no
place. The meager hospitality of dwarfs rains through the soles of the feet,
pleasing, at least for a while. They memorize these thoughts: Peace grows in the
arms of Hop. Moyduh is lashing.

They tarry on the banks of presence and permit braces

They razor leg sessions

They brace take horizon

They

They clock the decimals with the powers of profound lather mathematics fortune
and menacing eleven messengers for lunch on unsavory plastic particles of
adventure sausage cheese meeting without opinion rock salt without gas to polish
the hearts of the sausage the torrid provocative discombobulated procedural
flapflapflap possible for surnames Surinam Ruth on maple hazard for posy eleven
lemon together a sort of promotion to end the prevalence of eleven injured outcast
marble hostage alarm forked as moral leaven presses the impact to an unbearable
irrefrangible post haste mentoring process patch to hug leftover starting gate blocks
process marked machinery & a very probable case of angina love organ more desert
more arms more hands to open armrest hand site house plan profound paranormal
mauvaise foi & pronounce faux pas & exact applications for the venture of a century
dysentery even monster procedure harped lozenge lockjaw gorgeous cholera
sublime high school forest protection agency method hazing order business method
to father androids on the soul of most practiced studioso studiosa remark mark
powder room & & operate to horoscope plastic plasticine porcine bovine remarks a
cross-hatched tight-fisted even-handed devil-may-care process-oriented
mismatched mistake-ridden loss-ridden error-prone accident-prone Altair dazed
and confused leftover sausage factory on the outskirts of heaven or hell the point is
eaten & disgorged promoted & fascinated & remarked & answered & amplified a
dozen long-distance unbroken receiving clarity to use as appropriate or sausages
argued to death images of pleasure displeasure fortunate have-nots have not poverty
forecast along the axis of seven longitudinal distribution alert format prease police
organon mushroom orgone soup & sandwich four pills to help massacre the live
disgusting truthful operating sandwich shop mustache muscle premise longstanding
holiday apparatus mothball forget leaven message image impact breathing south
gate broken lozenge arrest starting gate bromo brio leaven health allowance
occupational ice cream rope-a-dope

They defeat inquiries through a prolonged position and mock heroic Albigensian
Jansenist Iphigenia in Tauris lock stock and barrel funhouse unregulated Baltic

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torrid porpoise heart farfetched session lemon mesmeric false David false prophet
false false

They mimic edification oh no the plaque faces harbingers soakers seething all
practical infantile precise dubious pretentious information system guideline long on
imminent muted tokens exasperated operated beyond beyond and very hatch-wise
cigar-bitten brick-burned bone-cold orifice-smitten

They prosecute

They they exfoliate parks in a rapid gathering a Cisalpine afternoon mortgage

pragmatic

They perhaps tackled the seeing-eye original dumbfounded bothered implicated

exasperated dun cold Chevy chevron arctic sausage attack sage blueberry
postponement irregular tether and torchlight Lacedemonian and symbol postage
crackers applesauce mockery phalange torque office proposal doing derring-do

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