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R A I S E Y O U R hand if you’d like to be excused
raise your hand if you’d like to be an excuse!

an exclamation is or is not a raised hand
raise your hand if you like F I C T I O N 

T O be an excuse among the overgrown 
homunculi

test tubing throughout the day-to-day anal cavity
control center and the uncertain cartesian 
theater maintaining our spectacles 

A N A B N O R M A L locus an abnormal A P P L A U S E
applause tries its raised hand at being endless

and entitled 

T H E A U D I E N C E 
succumbing to the see-through 
is see-through 

with effort
we C A N S T O P T H E N A R R A T I V E 

dead in its syntax
or in a real-life reader. whichever comes first

three voyeurs use agoraphobia
had they heard this one 

before their walls were at large 
A C H E A P O P L O T is better than T H I S bullshit

this bullshit is the F O U R T H W A L L
my abstractions got in the way

my abstractions done 
G O T O U T O F T H E W A Y

to raise fiction by hand 

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there a fourth wall problem 
reaches for the cheap seats

there W E sent cronies
to distance ourselves from two

bodies at rest 
we will need L E F T overs
to trickle through an ancient

E T Y M O L O G Y 
a noir 

all readers are future
A L L V I E W E R S H I P is future

I N T H E N E W

there a F O U R T H W A L L proposition 
to climb upon 

and a new lens an abstract abattoir 
all the unfaltering angles 

of a real-life viewer 
fades into focus

right on cue 
all the mileage to survey 

the new writing
if the writing is fast enough

a word nears lightspeed 
where
thresholds question
a telescope can spot
us in a lifetime
dear future reader
dear lens and dear meadow

I have written this in shadow 
slantwise

with no other way to fall