VILLANELLE: POUNDING THE SAME BLISTERING PAVEMENT

Levi Catoe

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but unfortunately, we have to pass at this time.

While interesting they’re not quite right for us.

Like getting kicked out of an elite prep school at sixteen, for

getting caught, smoking cigarettes, inside of the, boys' restroom.

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She was the most popular of all ballerina’s, poised in arabesque,

lived a strumpet’s life & before long just seemed to, vanish away.

While interesting they’re not quite right for us.

Sonia became familiar with Kierkegaard in the kindergarten.

She also played with dragons, that spoke to her vulgarly in Wolof.

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He wore a beret, with some loose jagged edges, that hung

like a car's air-freshner, hangs from the, rear view mirror

While interesting, they’re not quite right for us.

A red sedan flying down the road, with a dragging muffler, created

some sparks, all the way down Mulholland Drive; before signaling left.

Thank you for sending us your work;

while interesting--they’re not quite right for us.