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Lately I've been working out ways
To put extra pressure on myself,
To tense up at the slightest variation
In the population of the elevator,
Hold off on slow-dances until after
The film editor is splicing a zamboni
Where you expect the push-broom janitor,
Daffy Duck coming onstage to crickets
Where moments before, hella boffo.
I could join a gym, of course, or
Spend entire days in the dictionary
Steeped in darjeeling's tannins,
A mandate for alkaloids secretly
Regulating this hyper purpose.
No one speaks this way. I don't care.