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There are or will be

No Polar Bears in Antarctica.
No Polar Bears in our streets.
No Polar Bears in the drive-through at McDonalds.
No Polar Bears in the land of flightless birds.
No Polar Bears in aggregations.
No Polar Bears in your hat.
No Polar Bears in mission control.
No Polar Bears in bikinis on the side of the road holding signs.
No Polar Bears in the cars going past.
No Polar Bears in his hometown of Appleton, Wisconsin.
No Polar Bears in Arizona so no posts tagged © Tumblr, Inc.
No Polar Bears in the zoo.
No Polar Bears in Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl Campaign.
No Polar Bears in the home market.
No Polar Bears in the way.
No Polar Bears in the Lucas Davenport novels by John Sandford.
No Polar Bears in penguin huddles.
No Polar Bears in Hornstrandir.
No Polar Bears in a molecule—or is that Polar Bonds?
No Polar Bears in the three-wheeled Reliant Robin.
No Polar Bears in Costa Rica.
No Polar Bears in sight.
No Polar Bears in the provincial park.
No Polar Bears in the most recent economics textbook.
No Polar Bears in Alaska. This may be an error.
No Polar Bears in designated wilderness areas.
No Polar Bears in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 years.
No Polar Bears.

Mark Young_

A line from Angela Merkel

The pharmaceutical industry often
carries out skin penetration exercises
using a bogus Facebook phishing
scheme. There's an authentic-looking

sender, & a socially engineered mess-
age that promises if you give God 10%
of your income he'll pour so much
financial blessing into your life that it

actually becomes a problem to deal
with. I was sent a beetroot instead of
the Android phone we'd agreed on.
There are many conflicting interests.

  Mark Young__

____________________

Impressions

If this
were Cézanne's
or Magritte's
birthday

I might consider
having an
apple for
lunch. But

instead I'm
stuck with
Renoir, & a
full-on three-

courser on
the grass.

  Mark Young__


Strut

It is disconcerting enough
having your favorite Dylan
& Cohen anthems ampli-
fying the angst as you try
to decide what brand of
ramen or which avocados
to choose when the music
accompanies you down
the aisles of a supermarket
that is nowhere near
California. But when you
hear a recording by Allen
Ginsberg being used as the

where models strut the run-
way, with their small breasts
showing through sheer
blouses, it is time to ask
where are the saintly motor-
cyclists when you need them,
first to take Manhattan then
to take Berlin & then finally
to fuck the perpetrators of
these obscenities in the ass
so hard that there will be
no joy in their screaming.

  Mark Young__