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\u2014after \u201cAmerican Pie,\u201d sung by Leslie Cheung, a Cantopop star\u00a0<\/em>who died jumping off the 24th\u00a0floor of the Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

boys always<\/p>\n

haunting the gas<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

stationed at<\/p>\n

the kum & go<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

come around yelling<\/p>\n

happy july, all<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

these lives you haven\u2019t filled<\/p>\n

in all these teeth<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

a faith so deep you can<\/p>\n

die in it, like a boy so<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

high up he thought the<\/p>\n

swimming pool was full<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and god willing, he<\/p>\n

dived in it. in a<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

preemptive strike, patriotic, partirons<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

and party on! miss \u4e2d\u56fd<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

in \u4e2d\u897f\u90e8,<\/p>\n

i dismiss<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

their existence, a flotilla<\/p>\n

with more in common<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

with a root beer vanilla<\/p>\n

concoction than the<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

spanish armada, though<\/p>\n

that too was a whipped<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

cream loss. dq stands<\/p>\n

for disqualification\u2014three<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

strikes & the cup is half<\/p>\n

mosh pit half military<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

campaign\u2014god is in the<\/em><\/p>\n

good fizz\u2014<\/em>& the bottom<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(beyond the caffeine &<\/p>\n

fresh sugarcane) is concrete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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