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Typhoid Mary (what is another word for analogy?

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Typhoid Mary
what is another word for synonym?


sirens in the trailer park, shanty
town utterings. Typhoid Mary
triggers radiators and transistor
radios. radio stations and sister
stations. roaring silence begins.

in summer she is sweet. in winter
more tin for hat. aerowing as the
shoemaker's strange assistant. as
scofflaw, she draws circles not lines.

she drops her keys to join this once
befriended reality. scissors - paper -
stone. Mercury to Jupiter retrograde.

Indian Paintbrushes scatter the field.

Typhoid Mary travels Hyde Park /
Guy Fawkes. African safari or the
Queen's Highway. tuppence, pence,
farthing. eclectic electrician poses
as a historian of the Victorian error.

all white, fluorescent lights. strobes as
the projector broke. count Mississippi.
under pale sodium arc lights and nitrous
fluorescent glow sticks, she shines bright.

Typhoid Mary rode the lightning, put
on her 3D glasses, sings songs about
gravity. tends bullet wound stigmata.

coddles & swaddles her paper mâché
children. her voice, angle dust. surely
angels weep for her mechanical heart.

humming pop tunes as they post Holy
Orders. all-white fluorescent lights.
I have a soft corner for Typhoid Mary.

Typhoid Mary rode aboard the Mary
Celeste. the good ship moored by the
Moors in the moors. looking for more.

Roanoke not lost, relocated. kit and
caboodle on the Eastern Conestogas.
mired in swamp and mud; all sweating
blood. Aerfoils would have eased their
toil. two hundred to late, an open wake.

Croatoan, Creole, Cajun - its all Greek
to me. please pass the salt and the fish.
without books the library in Alexandra
would not burn. another lesson learned.

Typhoid Mary's bones turned to dust. ashes
to ashes, worm and rust. in God we trust.
Lenin, Marx
Marx, Lennon
Good Dog...
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