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  • The Paris Review

    Ron Silliman

    Mar 09, 2021 2 minutes

    from “PARROT EYES LUST”

    for Elliot Helfer

    Do potatoes suffer?

    Would it be new
    with a blue pen?

    This lightweight
    futuristic
    slightly minimalist
    black German
    fountain pen

    The Lamy Safari

    The alphabet
    with my name inserted
    black against red

    the same asCaxton’s Missal

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