"...like a timid white flag, like a brittle piano key. Like a single/finger of a windmill..."

"Since I am a direct descendant of Homo Erectus, let me/Stand straight as a human/人..."

"Ten monologues to a vacant chair,/the dark stuff, tickled throats/and a transatlantic accent..."

"But a cashier who recites Frost to perfection?"

"...under the scrutiny/of a highlighter/and high-beam/fluorescent lights."

"...the center a question, a crescent moon, the moon/a mouth..."

"Add oil add oil! - 加油加油!"

"...his Goodwill-box pants will cling to his sorry knees. They'll knock like/castanets."

"...and plantroom/is the right/name for this place underneath/of the building..."

"Can/the earth rename us?/It is the honor of the sky/who knew us first."

"We play for the twinkling stars on the garage roof..."

"Here it gets tricky, breathing in gasps, paddling fast..."

"...when I found him dead on my lawn/the profit motive engulfed me."

Even/Reagan's scars under a foot/of the flood...

"...night alone is an allusion to darkness."