Guides, Translators, Assistants, Porters

a polyvocal American epic minus the details

JARED SCHICKLING

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Guides, Translators, Assistants, Porters
a polyvocal American epic minus the details
by Jared Schickling
Copyright © 2018

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the city of Fort Collins, whose history of water rights
produced this book.
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And so we could go on, reducing, adding:
At what precise point does the change occur?
Your senses will alert you in an instant
To alterations on a larger scale.

—Lucifer, The Tragedy of Man

Unto Adam also, and to his wife, did the LORD God make coates of skinnes, and
cloathed them.

—Genesis, The Expulsion from Paradise

 Guides, Translators, Assistants, Porters

a polyvocal American epic minus the details

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MISSING O BOUNTY

of
course
don’t

believe it enters you

noise
to clear

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ships austere perishable

smoked hams rumored

to be

to the

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if we had more would it
be more

because I love you and you

loved it

here
here
here

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less
more

MORE

some
more

MORE

less
less

MORE

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mine thought
thought of mine
thought of things

thought

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• • he preaches at
bReach fall
toe
between my sand
TALK

of and
the memory

No one
in particular
was everywhere

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Nobody cast out expelled
rode austere

horses

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 expelled

population
population committee of safety
stalled

effort
to
expand

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beached! woods of

here
here
here

here

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underfoot laters!

cattle
cattle
cattle

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 still here love you
still here

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over over
seas over sea

I’m next door cohabitating

Over

Nobody

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• • •
you were in me
had to be rid of it

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What we austere
no idea

Depriving
claim

Meanwhile
commemorative

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golden love

hill yiu
purple luve

mountains y

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expelled expelled expelled
child
portly underfoot

inspiration breaks
dirt

works

blesses
shovel
consecrated

instrument

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MATERIAL BODY

in the contract

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