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If I loved you with money
    you still unadorned
      if I loved you with a nuclear army


if I loved you in falsetto
  while the incoherent applauded
    and we bowed together through             
        a curtain of static to be cut in half


if I loved you stilletto'd
  to the unknown where you walked
the rebounder's body is filled
   with blank spots, a kind
          of glitch lazarus


rising with the heat of money
 money staring at other forces in the aisles
   that bear him to a rivershelf tirepit
 budget wiggling dragon death spectacle
                    that comes with no hint
                          of the twin oceans
                             of the mercury sky, a foil
                                      torn with warnings