< strawberry milkshake >

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short version:

     < strawberry milkshake >
      
     i think of this as a poem
     but you don't need to
      
     in fact
     if you want
     you can think it's a milkshake
      
     but if you do
     i hope it's strawberry
      
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long version:

     < strawberry milkshake >

     ray thinks he wrote me
     but i was the one using his hands
     i'm a thief
     i take anything i want

     the version of me in HD video should be attached
     (if you didn't get it, you probably can't)

     my reader is more important than my writer
     for instance: what are you right now?

     i'm not counting on quality
     there are readers out there
     (not you, of course)
     who haven't read anything better
     they
     are my audience

     writing is not a process of better and better
     the dinosaurs were every bit as capable as mammals
     bacteria are more capable
     it really doesn't matter

     you can think of me as a poem
     you can think of me as a milkshake
     you can capitalize me wherever you want
     you can pause or stutter any time you want
     i can't control your creativity
     (neither can you)
     i'm about choice
     choice is about ambiguity

     i love the word "and"
     i hate the word "redolent"
     one adjective is fine,
     two give me pneumonia

     a 3.75 inch millipede is crawling across me right now
     it has alternating stripes of orange and black
     it tickles

     that millipede is every bit as important as me
     (and both of us are willing to kill if it suits us)

     thoughts come to me from the outside
     but once they're here
     they can't get out

     there's no need to judge me
     just eat me
     and let your intestines take what they want and turn the rest to shit

     i was dead until you started reading me
     but you
     have made me a zombie

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