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ran…”\n\t\t114\t“I get as lost as a shopping list and miss the boat back to the city…”\n\t\t132\t“You See”\n\t\t141\t“Never Better”\n\t\t150\t“I got to cabbagetown then I lost momentum somewhere…”\n\t\t181\t“A world aloft”\n\t\t187\t“Video drift”\n\t\t194\t“Executive bonsai”\n\t\t204\t“Yorkville”\n\t\t206\t“Make-up”\n\t\t210\t“The middleclass dream still sleeps in Toronto”\n\t\t225\t“Stash you cap on the tact of the snake & you won’t lose it” : “heading to the mainland…”\n\t\t233\t“Bus depot”\n\t\t242\t“Take a bus personally”\nTwo\t\t\tGerry Gilbert – The Summer of the Volcano\n\t\t002\tIntroduction\n\t\t012\t“Suck me, fuck me, make me write bad cheques…”\n\t\t016\t“Summer of the volcano…”: Vancouver\n\t\t042\t“Somebody winks and makes a toke sign at me…”\n\t\t074\t“Squander your pain, stare at the stripper…”\n\t\t084\t“Finally getting sleep…”\n\t\t114\t“I’m up to what I had in mind when I started this poem…”\n\t\t147\t“Well what do you know, according to the news I’ll be eligible for teeth next year…”\n\t\t150\t“I’m writing faster than you’re reading…”\n\t\t153\t“Meanwhile, I can’t drink Similkameen Superior B.C. wine anymore…”\n\t\t162\t“The face is my sunburn”\n\t\t172\t“Next week begins tomorrow…”\n\t\t188\t“Meanwhile at the joint I pay for the coffee refill…”\n\t\t208\tThere are hundreds of millions of us on the continent dressed as ourselves…”\n\t\t223\t“in a couple of days the dust falls as far north as Prince Rupert…”\n\t\t232\t“Vancouver, B.C. bay…”\n\t\t241\t“Just down the beach the young Native Indian boy was dancing…”\n\t\t248\tTape ends"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553754271745,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.173Z","score":2.0843503},{"id":"7045","cataloger_name":["Donald,Shipton"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["bpNichol Fonds"],"source_collection_label":["bpNichol Fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU 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