107 0 0
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A column of children
yellow striped and blue
and red below black
hair smooth trailing
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4800
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If he had simply faded like a shout from the street, the chaste tree she loves for its blue irony would not have been planted, nor the red clover made to bleed. It was always too dark, or windy, it was too late to call or…
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96010
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As if I should have expected better of it.
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10152
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The wind whispers to the Tigris River. I talk to the water because I am shy to God. Birds gather seed. Tigers devour prey. Hyenas lick up the scraps of God. I sit in the dark and worry. I watch death rise like heated…
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99611
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We may sniff a gush of something
in the rush of heat round a petrol bomb.
Or reap a gift from the
cracked head of a hero.
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11731410
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In those years,
you and I were told to leap
for a world suffused with sound
and industry.
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6611
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Two lives, two women,three seekers of peace:one gives attentionone serenity.You pick one and loseher adorationthe other may turn outto be a shrew.
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18972520
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The diagnosis was peculiar, the doctors agreed, / but so was the condition
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1271129
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113765
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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.
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17882618
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I am complicit in the darkness
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17982512
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1133107
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In my dreams, I watch a sand shark sleep / on a coral bed
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3661715
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Who invented virtue—I say the devil
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3171511
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Everything molten deserves a mold
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