tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90392894518056778412024-03-14T00:29:56.295-07:00GeometaphysicsPoetryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-86760999812515692412022-05-03T18:30:00.005-07:002022-05-03T22:58:22.783-07:00The Repeal of Roe v Wade<p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">Our fucked-up nation isn’t
free.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">The model savior’s birth<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">has symbolic value to some
men.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">For evenso whereas yes<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">a man deserves death<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">torture even, prison, or damnation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">The fetus is pure. The Ultramessiah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">Messiah before there was a
messiah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">The fetus is the protoman.
almost half sperm<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">half egg. The subatomic
Big Bang aborted by the city<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">just like Jefferson warned<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">and wasted like criminals<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">In the eyes of Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">I believe all god’s
children <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">were happier as slaves.
Praise Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">and take the most wild capricious
life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">The outlaw childgod
spawned by incest<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">Beneath a tornado shaped
like Grandmother. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">As it was, My Jehovah<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">whose only begotten son<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">came to Earth in Mary’s
belly. Your belly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">sluts and the poor would bodily
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">dismember, strangle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">Strangle the rapist’s
baby. What a crime.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">For in the fascist world<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">miscarriage is a sign.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">All ya can do is pray <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">is the Sunday spirit<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">Eve-given, gasoline
headcase<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">talking local football <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">at the roadside BBQ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">Ask Joseph <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">if he said no to God <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">who enters unwillingly and
gives way to eternal praise. Fuck.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">The sacramental ova<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">was meant to pump life<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: white;">and now there is a court
to prove it</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-4569031022568725932021-07-27T19:59:00.002-07:002022-02-25T20:00:03.893-08:00Hippo Wreck<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Sam
drove his white van <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">through
the obsidian honeycomb semiconductor <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">better
known as The Cliff of Life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Stop deconstructing! Now is a
time to build! You damn shoegazers!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">When
Sam crashed into a glass sinkhole<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">his
hippo was left standing on its nose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">My
father wondered <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What in the samhill?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">(Newspapers)!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">How
many phone numbers on the bathroom stalls<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">did
it take me to realize they always summed the same<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">no
matter how I rearranged them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Everyone
was “closed for the virus” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">or
pontificating in a Lamborghini<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">that
men reelect <i>the government is freaking out.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Good.
An ahm four that.</span></i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> [spit].<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">But
now the crashed hippo means more than that jazz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">I
tried all night to find someone<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">as
I stared from my loft at six different skylines<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">(Sydney
Singapore Shanghai Barcelona San Francisco Dubai)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">The
black market had options.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Many
advocated zoos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">The
only guy open was named Ramesh</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">.His
Moneyball said Mumbai.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">I
called Ramesh <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">(</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Hello moon</span></i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> like a tropical fish).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">and
surfed the night on a banana.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Ramesh
was inexperienced<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">but
known for success with antelopes<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">so
why the hell not?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Matters
of the everpresent procreative desire<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">demanded
someone rugged<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">determined
confident blue-skinned and silent. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Sam
died of guilt in a romantic spotlight on the quad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">There
were signs of the sky growing in his body. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Prospects
for souls were bright as the sun<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">the
president’s bronzer <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">made
it seem like he worshipped by imitating. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Ramesh
freed the hippo that night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Sam
gave up too early.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">We
are near the end of our terrib</span><span><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">le experiment.</span><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;"></o:p></span></span></p>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-84544785832047892392020-11-08T08:15:00.001-08:002022-02-25T20:00:07.580-08:00Supermodelblues<span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">12345677216120513151919 </span><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /> This is one of many </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">numbers that haunt me. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">The number by which god calls me. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">My imbroglios inflame your imagination; hence</span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">original despite the serial number </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">I vacuum in my underwear </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">and pretend the artworks tilted </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">odd angles by earthquakes </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">decided long ago </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">mean something to me. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">I forget things easily. Sorry </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">if I forgive myself </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">for ghosting you last week </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">but you still asked me here to pose <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">with desertification and empty oceans </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">war plutocracy rape fantasy success </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">and my lips are like Yeah </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">I am your goddess and I will give you </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">some of what you need. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Just don't stare longer than I silently ask. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">From one stage set to the next </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">my mind moves so fast </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">there is no reason to remember anything you ever said </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">because this life is my garden </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">and each day is lovelier than tomorrow. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">This is my portfolio. Did I tell you I like Carraba's? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Life rolls like the controversial code words </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">of end-stage principalities </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">in which I serve as subject of my own backdrop </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">in a townhouse by the airport <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">all combined to form the reality in which I fling </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">in a look made for fun </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">and verse as useless as it is unique like </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">an individual butterfly or the dress a boutique </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">made for me especially but more so</span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">unable to contain when the MVP </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">crosses like a black cat, my body. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">This is why my smile is as it is. Do you like it?<br />My life does not depend on the answer </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">but I wonder nonetheless. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">--------------------------------------------- <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Sometimes everything reminds me of something else <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">like every day of what I want to be </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">but because my life is my garden </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">there is no reason to settle </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">on a single day of the collection. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">A businesswoman of Monaco, 1953. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Cleopatra no doubt. Christ on the stake. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">A lime-green Lamborghini </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">driving through sky-high slices </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">of coconut cake. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Through nights a zebra mask defines me as I peek at magazines </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">eating fast food at the end of the all-night pharmacy. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">The hardest moons gave me this</span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">and I can't complain about the way time has warped me. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Even the predator hiss-- is that not the way of Eve </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">my friend my idol my love? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">It is no mistake I carry her apples as breasts. <br />And her face but no memory </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">except a number I remember. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">It begins with 123.</span></div>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-40796724110870973282020-08-08T15:55:00.173-07:002022-02-25T20:00:05.638-08:00Libertalia<span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">tew<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Sad matter wandering<br />one horn of existence </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">taken from creation <br />mistaken like an orange </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">for the blue sea <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">all wonder <i>even when we endure to whom?</i> <br />Life upon the level <br />knows soon our masters </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">will be goat on the skewer <br />despite our own republic-- </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">bliss and lemurs <br />stealing our powder </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">learning to count <br />by rubies divided </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">on the sands of Isle-St-Marie. <br /><br />No one wants to end up truly liberated do they? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">A lunatic shitting freely in the street? <br />Why then do these Men </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">exist in time? <br />Why do they rule my time? O <br />the times. I forget the times. <br /><br />Which sounds better as <br /><i>J’oublie le fois. <br /></i><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">plantain <br /><br />When a curse and a joke express myself better <br />than symbols that signify a life with a paycheck <br />a struggle for daycare <br />a carousel of birthdays <br />sad days not there before, therefore <br />I attain the level. <br /><br />Pay no attention to the children lick their lips <br />as New Delights wonder <i>Are you a delicacy too?</i> <br />I take the king's ships. Am I not King? <br /><br />Yes? For awhile? <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">And my castle though crude <br />does it not grow men thick as baobab <br />and endless wives new to their freedom?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br />The moats are filled with ancient suicides dogs <br />pterodactyls millionaires <br />idiots warriors. Shamen. <br /><br />A man of fortune seeks his fortune here. <br />Such people jig in the hanging gardens. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Sails crack and the night <br />dark-deadly maroon/</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">walls moan with treasure. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Gold sweats, rosewood bees <br />make young honey to lick off the hot bank of stone. <br />By Christ I can taste <br />the blood in my enemies. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">I chew the bitter glands <br />of evil people humbled in the shade. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Your envy is always best as condiment. <br />Pursuers silent in the forest. Let me go lightly </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">as springbok infatuated with flight. <br />Lure me back against the paradise of my soft mind— <br />on a hot bank of clay <br />and the need for protection.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Were those flamingos just a burst of beautiful time? <br />Did Time not appraise your intelligence? <br />Were men in the hallways not wondering? <br />Or women not assessing your smirk? <br />The athletes not assessing your smile <br />your structure <br />and marble? Your orchid scared </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">in gorgeous panties <br />clitoris in distress </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">rolling like eventual rain <br />droplet by droplet </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">til my my island is no longer private</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br />I asked such questions as commander. <br /><br />Life is harsh on the level. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Love, suggested violently <br />pure as the colors <br />or the fresh tower tiles <br />makes an imprint in a man who has not grown old. <br />I see. In the dark. With special eyes. <br />Like a long-tongued moth </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">dodging bats for the all-night orgy. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Arrival comes by awful means </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">on a hot bank of flesh. <br />Your daughter will be richly rewarded. <br /><br />Otherwise it's the pistol. Or the navy. <br /><br />Yes, I am insane because I wanted it—the kingdom. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">taylor <br /><br /> Youths could sneak on the sea between two castles <br />and try strange things before the moon between <br />the cloudy sky went hyperblue <br />revealing the latest <br />flowering nebula. <br />Lightning repeatedly strikes twice. <br />More stars squeeze into the darkness </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">until you wonder <br /><i>How is it still dark?</i> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">and luminescent creatures love <br />blowing ships to the sand </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">because they shine on in return. <br />The kingdom faraway is raucous. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">You can hear freedom like I do— <br />voices without boundary <br />and the night’s waves of nutmeg olive, oil, gardenia, <br />coffee, ocean, pasture the sound of the abacus <br />deducing us to One <br />energy not felt before. <br />Upon ascendance the equivalent of a peacock <br />disguised as a queen plays her jewels <br />with long henna hands. <br /><br />One mood is an eternity <br />but here the billion deviations <br />unfold like clockwork wound by minds watered by words </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">minted by expression <br />made aware of god. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Beside a broken nectarine <br />the last ten children tell their tales. <br />Your door opens to a face <br />speaking of The Thing. <br /><br />You are welcomed by a plant <br />into the hand of a storm and left dripping </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">leaves’ light</span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br />What to do with the chameleons is yours. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">condent <br /><br /> Every trace of gravity, remove. Every detail is a line <br />sloping like defiant/sunset/breast. <br /><br />You'll be my guest in paradise <br />but I'll drink you to hell <br />until the daughter of Bourbon comes of age <br />to pardon my entanglements alisten in hot corners <br />waves upon the rocks— ships heave, armies of birds <br />sea lion rebellions. Otherwise it is safe <br />to relax. To think without guilt. Without history. <br /><br />Bells ring. I have made it so. Until the gun comes up <br />and once again we run. <br />On the level, everything is unprecedented. <br />Behind a waterfall girls <br />gather to trade secrets: intimacy, trust <br />a basket weaved by caring hands. <br />Yet the youth seeking to be free of ribbons <br />can disappear and find estrangement <br />sooner than he feared. <br /><br />I AM as Providence intended— <br />to witness warships <br />hang like buzzards there against the setting ruby <br />surrounded by tourmaline <br />placed by tentacles into the moment <br />and shot when life is over. <br /><br />I’ll wear the jewels of the sultan tonight. <br />I will be ultimately home. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">england <br /><br /> Tell the shadows what you wish to see <br />if you can imagine something not already clear <br />before you ample and apricot. <br /><br />The heart will feel angels' topaz wings <br />crossing the portico fade away today. <br />The fossa howls like a dying man <br />and deliberate lovers <br />nurse the soldiers and magicians <br />who crewed the mutiny. <br /><br />Beauty spells thirst<br />for cream of celestial whales. <br />Vanilla nutmeg honey and cloves. <br />We drank the richest of behemoths. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">With almonds.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br />Traitor/travelers with a mug of Madagascar milk <br />working depleted on the mystery given. <br />Even if kind and weak. Like me. <br /><br />What you need and what we have <br />to offer is far beyond your need. <br />The apsara blow in some evenings. <br />The sharks industrious and swift. <br /><br />The marooned see hope in the distance. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">avery <br /><br />$116 million in gold. No grog. No hatmakers. <br />Would endless turtle stew <br />precious gods, silk <br />and more cardamom than you can imagine <br />be enough to outlast hunger's cannons? <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Not all who join are invited to the division. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Whatever code you believe <br />does not apply <br />to one who steals from Allah. <br /><br />I do not worry what they say <br />when smoking in the fans of heavy palms. <br />Yes, I should have stayed <br />in the heart of the insane island. <br />But endangered like the forest <br />able to appear in time like the chameleon <br />I answer your monsoon <br />with new forms of rare escape <br />and thoughts of home-poisoned reality. <br /><br />Quartermaster, brute shipwreck <br />what you might call unscrupulous <br />merchants who took my last diamond <br />and did not worry what I'd say <br />because words have no meaning </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">off the level. <br /><br />Not all who join <br /><br />are invited to the division. <br /><br />Choose your ending well </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">or you begin where you began. <br /><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">misson <br /><br />Meat is sacrificed to us <br />but we aren’t cruel monsters. Perhaps <br />no such thing as a monster anymore exists! <br />The pinions of the watch no longer <br />count toward Time. Time <br />is still the sun upon the level <br />and I die before that changes. <br />No fucking master <br />tells me not to drink <br />and still I can surprise a woman <br />shoot dead dishonest men <br />shitting in the street <br />or strike a flag declaring <br />a World more Real than New. <br /><br />I walk susceptible to an ending always. <br />Even as advertising rolls from lips like magic yes. <br />Starlight autographs in estrus for an antihero. <br />But taste reunion with the fruits <br />grown that year with music we played <br />to some refined indulgence. <br /><br />If all is free of worry <br />we'll crush the time and die beautiful <br />let billions of chemicals <br />make pirates wild. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">You are sad and want to know </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Do I matter anymore? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br />On the level everything is known <br />including dead names repeated </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">on this island </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">on the moons. </span><br /></div>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-77147359280611327862020-07-01T08:31:00.222-07:002022-02-25T20:00:07.163-08:00June 2020<br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">At the end of yesterday's truisms. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Hollywood violence. Violent convulsion. Quite honestly </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">it would do me good to shut up lately. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><i>I would but I can’t, man. My mind goes.</i> </span></span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Omaha. Greenwood. Apocalypse Now. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kristine Moran. Massive Attack. Dr.
Strangelove. </span><br />
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<div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">You talk too much. Absinthe at 10. I want your body.</span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Hakeem Olajuwon. Aime Cesaire </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Pablo Neruda. Antietam. Crab feast. Grape
wasp. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The rapidly declining desire to survive. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">2. </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Deuteronomy. Aspirin. The dust in bones. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Chirico. Greenaway. </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Ripe steak on a Saturday night. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Choral Fantasy. High Noon. </span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Juneteenth. </span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i>I just learned that’s a thing
this year. </i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">3. </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">He’s reading Ulysses. She’s playing Debussy. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I’m watching nobody. We went to the protest. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">An active mind as told by the smile. </span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Josephine Baker. The Nude Maja. </span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Tight plaid pants. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Death is simply unavoidable. Dan Marino.</span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Mercan Dede. Spacemen 3. Tetsuro Sawada. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i>No I don’t care your race.</i> Rautavaaraa. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">To be context free--. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">that is a beautiful idea. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Was it Ahmaud? Was it Rayshard? Eric.
Breonna? </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Was it the Confederacy? Was it millions of
bad <i>explanhanations?</i></span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Told over time like a fake apology></span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">It was not apples or oranges. </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Gerome. Cleopatra. Sidney Bechet. Babylon.
Cherry slice. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Preet Bharara. Mad Dog Mattis. Tamir Rice. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">5. </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Woke up at 7 PM> too many options before
me. </span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Potatoes and eggs. No one to
ask. La Pointe. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Downtown Baltimore. Gun victim. Alton Sterling.</span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Appropriation? My views? My misconceived answers</span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">justified in too much exquisite detail</span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">for a story that must be forgotten to survive</span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">like a winter seed. Waiting for a sun.</span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Night of the Iguana. Hajime Sorayama. </span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Koyaanisqatsi. </span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Th</span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">ose who
aspire. </span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Anonymous</span><div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">forgotten stars. </span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Polanski’s Macbeth. Aya Kato. Atlantis.</span><div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Like you, who wonders about reasoning<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">when a plague is not mentioned in-textbook </span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">-<br /></span>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">or the greenhouse skies still not shown the
lightning. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">6. </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We are beyond biscuits and gravy here. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">On a porch summer green, children with
backpacks and pumpkins. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Matthew W. Moore. Chiho Aoshima. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Vivaldi constructed my mind. </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I cannot help but the pulse </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">allegro. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The taste of order and my mother’s crisping
pies </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">less entry to the logician’s anatomy chamber </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">and the type of honest clear reflecting
pools. </span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">-</span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Why does the narcissus bloom?<br /></span>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Whatever the world has shown you. </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I would remind you… </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">believe me</span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">it always has abundance more. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Reveal space torn sum unnamed like so></span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Take masculine audible ghost story for
granted and decease. </span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">-</span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Take better notes. Ask fewer questions.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">7.</span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Stereo MCs. Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">One night of life as a Happy Monday. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">William Holden. </span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The 1980s, inconceivable as it seems.<i> </i></span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We were the children in the fairy tale since deconstructed. </span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Groovin High. Gang Gang Dance. John Lewis.</span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i>-</i></span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Good editors. Nameless names.</span></div><div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Nazi brides. Colonial apologies. Heart of
Darkness. </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Thunderstorm traitor. Get the fuck off the
tornado. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Artichokes. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Nunavut. Tierra del Fuego. The Azores. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Waiting a million years. Just for us. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Yes, and the taste of blueberries.</span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">-</span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Escapist from hell says none of these things.</span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">What else was trueblue love when time fell down?</span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O my silence. You will be happy to hear it.</span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Brandywine m</span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">ilkshakes. Honduran cigars.</span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Slideshow interval.</span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">How wonderful it was unquestioned. </span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The delight of Tartini. Bison. Miura.</span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Wtweal. Floridian orchids. <i>I know you are a Botticelli angel.</i></span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i>-</i></span></div><div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Good lord I'm sorry I went on this long.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">8. </span></div></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">O I feel my silence comin soon.</span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Leonard Kwan. Julia Roca. </span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">One begins to wonder </span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">one begins/</span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">to wonder </span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">if he isn't just a bleeping</span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> computer of randomized integers.</span></div><div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><i>Well not exactly I mean yeah, whatever.</i> </span></span></div><div><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Anthony Santander. El Perro del Mar.<br /></span>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">9. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Misery and pain apparently, and XYZ.</span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I was aware I had been given half a story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><i>I would but I can’t, man. My mind goes</i> </span></span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">absolutely toward the zeroes I carry </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">like the eggs of elephant birds in a windstorm
home. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Moby Dick at Cape Cod. Sister-in-law
cocktails. </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Salvador Dali’s autobiography. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">There is still a lot to be said. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">10. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">To say it, I would be someone else. </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Blaise Cendrars. Kalidasa. Joey Badass.</span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A nonwhite woman of contrapuntal cosmoses</span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">deep and forgiving which I will not be.</span><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-23306876666718836532020-03-03T17:59:00.005-08:002022-02-25T20:00:04.641-08:00Libertalia<span style="color: white;"></span><div style="margin: 0in;"><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">will be goat on the skewer</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">for we are liberated from laws</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and make our own republic</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">even if we look foolish </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">killing lemurs </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">stealing our powder</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">on the sands of Isle-St-Marie.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">No one wants to end up truly</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">liberated do they?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A lunatic shitting freely in the street?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Why then do these Men</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">exist in time? Why do they rule</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">my time? O</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">the times. I forget the times.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Which sounds better as</span></div>
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<i><span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">J’oublie le fois.</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">plantain</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When my love has moved and no longer my love.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When a curse and a joke</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">express myself better </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">than the symbols in my mind</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">or a life with a paycheck or a struggle for daycare</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">or a carousel of birthdays </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">sad days </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">not there before</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">therefore </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I attain the level.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Pay no attention to the children lick their lips</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">as New Delights wonder</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Are you a delicacy too?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I take the king's ships. Am I not King?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yes. For awhile?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">And my castle though crude</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">grows men thick as baobab</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and endless wives new to their freedom?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">And never did a man have better times</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">than when the jigs I played took air?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The moats are filled with ancients suicides dogs</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">pterodactyls millionaires idiot</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">shamen.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A man of fortune</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">seeks his fortune here.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Such people flourish </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">in the hanging gardens.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sails crack and the night </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">dark-deadly maroon</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">makes walls moan with treasure.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Gold sweats</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and rosewood bees make young honey</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">to lick off the hot bank of stone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">By Christ I can taste</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">the blood in my enemies.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I chew the bitter glands</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">of evil people humbled in the shade.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Enemies silent in the forest.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Let me go lightly</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">as springbok infatuated with flight.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lure me back again paradise of my soft mind—</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">on a hot bank of clay </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and the need for my protection.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Were those flamingos just a burst of beautiful time?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Did Time not appraise your intelligence?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Were men in the hallways not wondering?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Or women not assessing your smirk</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The athletes not assessing your smile </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">your structure </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and marble? Your orchid scared </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">in gorgeous panties</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">a clitoris in distress</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">rolling like a droplet in a rainstorm</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">tests me as I try not to see</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">my castle crumble.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I asked such questions as commander.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Life is harsh on the level.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Love, suggested violently</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">pure as the colors </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">or the tower tiles smelling fresh</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">makes an imprint in a man</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">like a kiss against the skin</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">like skin to the spike of a palm </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">in the palm of a man.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yes, I am insane because I wanted it—the kingdom.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see. In the dark. With special eyes.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A long-tongued moth</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">dodging bats for the all-night orgy.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Arrival comes by awful means</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">on a hot bank of flesh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Your daughter will be richly rewarded.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Otherwise it's the pistol. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Or the navy.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Youths could sneak</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">on the sea between two castles</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and try strange things</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">before the moon between </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">the parting cloudy sky turned hyperblue</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and showed us the newest</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">flowering nebula.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lightning repeatedly strikes twice.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">More stars squeeze their light</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">into the darkness</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">til you wonder</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">How is it still dark?</span></i></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and bioluminescent creatures love</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">blowing ships toward terrain</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The kingdom faraway is raucous. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You can hear freedom like I do—</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">voices without boundary </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and the night’s waves of nutmeg</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">olive, oil, gardenia, coffee, ocean, pasture</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">an energy not felt before. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Upon ascendance</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">the equivalent of a peacock</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">disguised as a queen</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">plays her jewels with long henna hands.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">One mood is an eternity</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">but here the billion deviations</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">unfold like clockwork wound by minds</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">watered by words</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">minted by expression</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">made aware of god.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Beside a broken nectarine</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">the last ten children tell their tales.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Your door opens to a face</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">speaking of The Thing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You are welcomed by a plant</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">into the hand of a storm</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and left dripping leaves’ light.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">condent</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Every trace of gravity, remove.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Every detail has become a line</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">sloping like defiant/sunset/breast.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You'll be my guest in paradise</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">but I'll drink you to hell til then</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">til the daughter of Bourbon Island</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">comes of age to pardon me</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">for entanglements of humanity</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">listen in hot corners</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">listen, waves upon the rocks—</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">outside there is only peace</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and it is safe to relax my love</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">to think without guilt. Without history.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Bells ring. I have made it so.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Until the guns come, then we run.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the level, everything is unprecedented.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Behind a waterfall</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">girls gather to trade secrets. Intimacy, trust</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">make a basket weaved of caring hands.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yet the youth seeking to be cut free</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">of his ribbons can disappear</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and find estrangement sooner than he feared.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yes, here one is rewarded</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">easily as your test has been hard. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I AM</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">as Providence intended—</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">warships hang like buzzards. Sunset</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">like a ruby on seas of tourmaline</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">placed by tentacles into the moment</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and shot when my life is over.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I’ll wear the jewels of the sultan tonight.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">And we’ll return home when we can.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">england</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tell the shadows what you wish to see</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">if you can imagine something</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">not already clear before you</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">ample and apricot.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The heart will feel angels' topaz wings </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">crossing the portico </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">bulge with fresh blood. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The fossa howls out like a dying man. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Enormous dreams </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">nurse the soldiers </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and magicians in the crew.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Beauty spells thirst with milk </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">from the cream of celestial whales. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">God bless those traitors.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The traveler exhausted </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">drinks the mystery he is given. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even if kind </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and weak. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">What you need and what we have </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">to offer is far beyond your need.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The apsara blow in some evenings. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The sharks industrious and swift.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0in;">
<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The marooned see hope in the distance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">avery</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">$116,000,000 in gold.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nowhere to spend it.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yet, endless turtle stew</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">precious gods, the Mogul's silk</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">enslaved slave traders</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">pour in upon us</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">between the fans of heavy palms. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I disappeared into the jungle end of story. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">My sliver of the world is still sane</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">but endangered like the forest</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">we lurk, still here</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">able to appear</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">in time like the chameleon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I answer your monsoon </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">with new forms</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">of rare escape. Centurion</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">brute shipwreck, I indulged</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">in my woman with a little laugh</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and well-crafted commentary</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">extended belly and tight thighs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">She smells of moss and talcum. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">She will do things you dare</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">like play with wild ponies</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and understand </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">love above the level. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">She knows prey is all spirit. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">She is your partner tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">That’s all I miss of what I had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">misson</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Meat is sacrificed to us </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">but we aren’t cruel monsters. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is no such thing as a monster anymore!</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The pinions of the watch no longer </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">count toward time.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We are free on the level </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and will die if that's to change. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">No fucking master </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">tells me not to drink </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and still I can surprise a woman </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">shoot dead a dishonest man </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">shitting in the street </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">or strike a flag declaring </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">for my men at least </span></i></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">a World more Real than New.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I walk susceptible to an ending always. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even as advertising rolls from lips like magic yes.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Starlight autographs in estrus for an antihero. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">But taste reunion with the fruits </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">that grew that year </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">the music we played </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">the love we made. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">If all is free of worry, beautiful we die.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">So crush the time </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">let billions of chemicals </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in;">
<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">make pirates wild.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">You are sad and want to know<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
Do I matter anymore? </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the level everything is known </span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">including the forgotten names</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">on this island in existence.</span></div>
<span style="color: white;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-44275958162009954662020-02-28T06:55:00.007-08:002022-02-25T20:00:05.888-08:00Julia, Night 2<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Into the cherry trees </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">blowing in the midatlantic night.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Accidental panties </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">stuck out from the covers.</span><br /><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Didn’t know what world I was living in. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Springboks were jumping </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">on that nature show. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I sat in the local crabshack </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">eating clams and tried to apologize </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">for enjoying spring so greatly. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Blossoms snowing hard in the wind. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-42885403859859698302020-02-27T18:27:00.012-08:002022-02-25T20:00:05.722-08:00Sustainable Fine Dining<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I ordered the rockfish.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
waiter said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Excellent choice.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wondered How is the bass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
was actually considering that too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Excellent
choice.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
tried to joke<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well
how about the 80-oz porterhouse?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">He
replied <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Excellent choice.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
was like What on here isn’t an excellent choice?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and
shoved the menu in the air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
about the tofu pie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">the
red tide oysters Rockefeller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are
those excellent too?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ah, I don’t
believe those are on the menu<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">but excellent
choices, all, sir.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
said Ok, look you, stop all this pandering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and
find me something here that isn’t an excellent choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
don’t even want anything good anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just
get me something, the worst thing here,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">That’s
what I want.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jesus!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The duck w</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">ith
fig and chantarelles!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Get me the duck with fig and chanterelles!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like nothing was happening he told me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">That will not be
an excellent choice.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
said Good, give me that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another
couple came in minutes later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
man ordered the duck with chantarelles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Same
waiter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Excellent choice.</span></i></div>
Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-68717073688464105812020-02-25T16:15:00.001-08:002022-02-25T20:02:20.619-08:00Cat on Dog<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stupid panting dog </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">chained to the propane tanks </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">freaking on the alert. The fool. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Propaganda's caught his ears— </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">the evangelization of product </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">of human-capital management tools </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">flags at half-mast </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">disapproval ratings at new highs </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">stocks breaking records </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">like a drunk guitarist. </span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Look, he took a dump in the yard! </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br /></i>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, yes, O pooping dog! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like you we strain toward tyranny then back </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">to the discomfiting decline </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">that passes for normalcy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">when no one is looking! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Life is what happens </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">between sniffing feces. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Which admittedly consumes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">an absurd amount of time. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-77894822963478413442020-02-19T09:31:00.005-08:002022-02-25T20:00:07.247-08:00Nick McCabe<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">An ordinary day </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">leaves extraordinary-feeling weakly </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">seeking bodily escape </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">but you can’t get it out </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">because an ordinary day </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">is just a rich man getting rich </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">with data on oil usage, fat intake </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">clothing style, sexual problems </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">bowel movements, soup choice </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">driving patterns, health failure </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">insurance policy, driving metrics </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">the stirrings of reptilian cortex </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">host organism used by </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">parasite corporation dictator priest dependent shrink algorithm spy </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">surrender secrets and feed on freedom </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">til you stumble home jetlagged </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and press Go on microwave. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">New man learn new thing today. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe some boring firstworld shit went off the rails--</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">men with time to be humanitarians arrested. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">More stirring in the theater of the senile. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children aimlessly correcting dementia. </span><br />
<i><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hitler had some good ideas. </span></i><br />
<i><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I support the president. </span></i><br />
<i></i><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The cat fought you for a fucking porkchop. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trash night. Work tomorrow </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">if you just keep going. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Frigid air.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is music. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">------------------------------------------------------------ </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">One such evening watching baseball </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">til the life of Rimbaud seems absurd </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">it's clear I don't inspire shootings </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and hiking Alpine blizzards </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">is totally cliché. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gun runner just rumors </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">slave trader to prove </span><br />
<i><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">yeah my word was the opposite </span></i><br />
<i><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">of illuminated. </span></i><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then die dramatically by African worm. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do I still struggle for what he lost</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">because I am a fool? Or closer than he ever got?</span><br />
<i><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello it’s me it’s me calling out. Are you there? </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br /></i>
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nobody’s there. </span><br /><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Read a fallen angel </span><br /><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">there is every reason not to envy. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">------------------------------------------------ </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A chain reaction of suicides </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">takes us past the corporate coffee grind </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">interstate copier tragedy--</span><div><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">the latest luxuries' </span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">explicit scenes </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">scoffed at as over-the-top (</span><br />
<i><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Warmflash! Superminus! Positive zero! </span></i><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">a gold rush of nomenclature </span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">a misunderstanding of mortality</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">paranoid stylings and symbolic lies </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: large;">) </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">like a man going through his time </span></div><div>
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">who marries a cowgirl </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">who dies of his sadness</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">minted in a piss fountain.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I couldn't help myself be much more handsome</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the glorious ballads of supermarket cinemas </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">choosing canned beans after work for the devil</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">as I tried not to drive into the retaining wall. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I still believe in Nick McCabe. </span></div>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-242827102604262882020-02-19T06:50:00.001-08:002022-02-25T20:00:03.366-08:00Myst<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">All-encompassing, very alert </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a shape <i>What is it? </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the distance </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">so close I can barely feel </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">the liquidlike Superbeing of light </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">coming toward me like a sequoia through velvet-- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">stretched around a curve </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">helplessly filled </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">with comforting awe. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Orpheus went there. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The shamen the Baptist. Joan of Arc. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anonymous mystics </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">most of them briefly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some good </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">some evil in their own right </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">to touch life like the rainbow </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">bridging two minds. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most are crazy. I went there. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">At least I've been there. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Am I crazy?</span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-36681654999562865142020-02-17T15:36:00.002-08:002022-02-25T20:00:05.306-08:00Julia<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A year of Saturdays </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">bottled in the body </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">of a scarred virgin </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">mother of two </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">resembles one of Leonardo’s muses: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am jealous of the man </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">who sees her the first time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is one of my weaknesses— </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I want to seize what is hers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">--------------------------------------------------- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time is short and expensive. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Available upon request </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">but reliability varies greatly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">When They begin to charge our thoughts to us yes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">to think of her will cost a fortune: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eyes shining like a billion fish </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">caress a ruby reef </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">interacting with diamonds </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and the dancing light </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">that comes through clear water. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps Julia is what I seek as dying I ask </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">in middle-class heaven </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">it’ll never be that way again </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and suck the fruit ferociously </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">the cherubim have given me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">to last the unending commute to god.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not everything can be undone. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-38024871953334729692020-02-17T15:33:00.001-08:002022-02-25T20:00:05.470-08:00Sand<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">It doesn’t feel like nothing’s changed. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">We draw lines in the sand </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">so there is something to wash away. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I walk the country in your eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">but there is no union.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Intersecting lines </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">no longer waiting to cross. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-78021804183156514302020-02-16T20:44:00.002-08:002022-02-25T20:00:07.329-08:00D**<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A handsome man is a welcome sight. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">He makes me see something unusual. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I do not question the goodness of his intent </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">yet I am subservient to his intelligence and pay. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">In return I pour his gravy at Thanksgiving. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because his eyes say he knows </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and why should I doubt him? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">When he comes by </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I can say <i>I know this man </i></span></span><br />
<i></i><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and it’s nothing to him because he is Known. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">His presence is felt by his absence. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">He is a fire. His smile is almost befuddled. </span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">How can you expect to contain fire </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">unless you are fire too? </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are you a fire? Or beautiful ice? </span></i><br />
<i></i><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A handsome man is a welcome sight. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am going to ruin my life tonight. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-73228512719378563732020-01-31T12:44:00.002-08:002022-02-25T20:00:06.995-08:00First Wife, Originally Called Cabaret<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I last saw her as a waitress in Illinois </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the bathroom apologizing for her compartmental way. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Does a kiss have value </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">if the kissed don’t ultimately care? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">What am I experiencing?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">at the end of a long night-- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">three hours of comedy music and drama </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">spilling from theater streets </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">where women sell coral beads </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">tins of homestyle delicacies: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">relish, cockerels, turquoise, secret </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">years following a trail of feathers </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">one has no tolerance for </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">such questions or those questions' memories </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">of following a trail of feathers </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">southwest of apologies without effect. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">-------------------------------------------------------------- </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some nights walking the docks </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">in search of someone I could save </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">to atone for being this </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">leaking mystery you don’t-even-care-about </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I thought about it, yes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and some nights </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I lost track of you working </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">too hard for a delayed vacation. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">And it's too late to take me back now. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I last saw my lover as a waitress in Illinois. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the bathroom. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Apologizing for not loving me. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-28032427226026312102020-01-31T12:43:00.001-08:002022-02-25T20:00:04.896-08:00Balboa<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some visions last like your first kill. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some voices carry </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">like monkeys' in the forest. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Feel yourself blind with broken knees </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">crushing through a forest of mosquito-bleeding rain. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cooked in metal shells land </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and gold, taken naturally </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">from cacique to king </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">slaughtering men for acting like women </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">mad enough to taste the fungi </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">growing from the blood. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">When a man sees gore </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">run down a mountain peak </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">when a raider finds a new goldmine </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">waiting to be pacified </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">he feels my sunless weeks imprisoned </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">in a jungle killed for king and god: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">My ocean. My sunset. My pearls. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even in the conquered I find a home. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Atrocities accepted as the will of god </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">enough alliances to show my estate </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">followed by false charges and three hard axe-blows . </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The quest was tough disappointing neverending and misguided. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">But my vision of the ocean </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">is yours forever. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some visions last. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some voices carry </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">like a monkey's in the morning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">you want to go away. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-87000661698403819912020-01-31T12:41:00.001-08:002022-02-25T20:00:07.746-08:00Aztec Observatory<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The mountain IS a jaguar. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Inside its mouth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">every tooth's a scroll. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this library of scrolls, priests ask </span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is this the right one? </span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">But none of them are </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and there is no way of acquiring more. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stars stare from the eyes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The motorcycle repeats the déjà vu the motorcycle </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">disappears into the magma. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The jaguar rises with lava. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The scrolls are ready once again to burn. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-3343856464260008852020-01-31T12:40:00.004-08:002022-02-25T20:00:03.810-08:00To an Unknown Colombian Woman<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gridlock was rattling itself toward freedom! Monsters! Tyranny! Revolt. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I gave up T&P with semiautomatic compassion </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">for History changing unlike anything before. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">She said <i>You are my sky </i></span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I want to feel your hot breath on my neck </span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and put me up there in the Screaming Sixties </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">where the scalp of Earth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">curves into the mint-black sex of space </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">as I stroll among the mint-white tongues of sea. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">If I did, I died. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">If I didn’t, I died. I reasoned. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can cry or you can sing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">So why </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">not </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">sing?</span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-43950686256455905132020-01-31T12:29:00.002-08:002022-02-25T20:00:05.804-08:00Against Huysmans<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A book of poems is but one </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">however-real-it-seems </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">beautified distortion of what's happening </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and what’s to be. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A pretty face </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">emerges from the sliver of a moon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another rises like a shell from shore. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Election, blastoma, perfection, piranha. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hypergiants of the Tarantula nebula! </span></i><br />
<i></i><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Look around before it surrounds you. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Love before you start to age. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pray before you cease to be. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Truth will rise/a leaf will fall. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A praying mantis on the edge </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">of a crisp red book. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-62142418452735612802020-01-31T11:40:00.004-08:002022-02-25T20:00:06.831-08:00Turtle Soup at Midnight<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When a sphinx doesn’t speak </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">don’t ask no questions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just awareness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">there are questions to be asked </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">will draw scrutiny from mothers guardians spies. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We see it at our periphery, the fiery End. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To understand one trains in secret </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">perhaps prey for a predator </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">perhaps the miracle who survives </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">wades among the sirens answer with a fierce red scream </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">a presentation of sharp innocence </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">warped by time as always is resolved </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">with comprehensive hands </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">at least for a creature who knows its culture </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and orders follow as the ant to theend. [Sic] </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fuck our minds full of todays </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and the tides are coming for us all. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But though everything is bullshit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">we get up and still make turtle soup at midnight. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Without a lean awareness of these mysteries </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">you are dead in the water. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">With them hope lights a dark place </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">we are amazed to fall </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">so beautifully into. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-37105700564998869602020-01-31T11:30:00.001-08:002022-02-25T20:00:05.388-08:00Fear of Time<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The tissues of fate </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">moved by wind on April’s balcony </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">sweep the hands privately </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and though we cannot island, connected </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">to racist rapist thieves </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">entitled brutes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">dumb boys dumb women </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">we find a way to interwind </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">like two frogs on a leaf </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">and whisper, laugh and laugh </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">real happy and real </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">sad in the sad extreme: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am a barrel of gasoline </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">deep in the arctic </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">its significance unrealized. </span></i><br />
<i></i><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am a flame new to the arctic. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Soon you will realize.</span></i>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-17247045214350785082020-01-27T17:10:00.002-08:002022-02-25T20:00:04.557-08:00Chesapeake<span style="color: white;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">W</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">e zero in on a
refurbished oil rig. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We smell it is a
restaurant. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mom says <i>Yes </i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">we used to come here </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">before you were born.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
As the helicopter is landing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">we see the floor covered
in crabshells. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thousands of crabshells,
crabs stuffed with crabs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The floor is deep
orange, mustard and intestines. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Piles of crabs come out
of the ocean—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">even a tarantula has
formed on the back of a cook </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">like some kind of weird
flower. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A lobster the size of a
porpoise</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
gets shelled before my eyes. Quivers </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">like a squid as the
butter drips. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Crabs keep piling
up. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
We stay til nightfall </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">when the warmth of the
water </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">is confused with the
warmth of the air.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
A Bible reading. Then back </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">to the trailer </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">smell molding in
humanity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
Summer, 1960. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A white blouse smeared
with seasoning </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">draped my mother’s model
form </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and dad was righteous
for a time.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: white;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-51952472371708608272020-01-27T17:08:00.003-08:002022-02-25T20:00:06.134-08:00Mob<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Aristocrats enjoy execution </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">so long as the guillotine is gilded. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The blades whirled by good smiths </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">charging a fortune in pardons for billion-dollar alloys </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to crack the spine well </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">encourage years of craft. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some dip theirs in caviar </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">others oil with truffles or limited cologne. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some are engraved </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">with tiny verse </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">so the flesh shaved </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">is instantly impressed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">with a truth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">or something. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It doesn’t make much goddamn </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sense to me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and anyway </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm just here for the blood. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-11223835100422544292020-01-27T17:07:00.001-08:002022-02-25T20:00:04.142-08:00Final Exam<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the reply finally came </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">it was by book. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She wrote she was an independent-minded woman </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">who liked greasy spoons </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">maple water, vintage watches </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and here I was, laughing at football </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">a curiosity and she was curious </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">with had no intention of aging. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Upon the balcony my mother asked </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What are you reading? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I snuck out for a smoke. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There in the courtyard </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">next to the very same church </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">as the wind kicked in and the boxwoods leaned </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I saw a man made of ink. I moved toward him </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and became Marilyn Monroe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the balcony, my mother watched with alarm </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and a werewolf dressed as a king </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">beside her began jumping for joy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The man of ink turned and shot me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I lay on the cobblestones bleeding </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I woke up drooling at 10 PM. </span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039289451805677841.post-35280539290229019802020-01-27T17:05:00.004-08:002022-02-25T20:00:05.224-08:00Mallarmé<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Music in my mind </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sharp and brilliant as the greasy knife </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">shaving a day off the sun-- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">music meaningful as water </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">or the song still ringing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">when the notes' bare ends </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in a thought afloat in light-- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">stray swan alight in a sunset </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">engulfing entirely the moment aspired to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">or a truth not unalike as shrouded. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most things I was good at making nurses laugh </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the human body's ironies alike we, perceiving </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">connected like bone to flesh </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">as sure as we were bred to laugh </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">identically even if otherwise </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">my general confusion </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">was now symmetrical with understanding </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Being Unbeing Itself.</span>Mark Armacosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265346545106668398noreply@blogger.com0