Hot night, bite to eat: beef-built burger like a butcher’s idea of Babylon
Mutton fortresses from Euphrates to Bosphouros
Brisket fries golden spires
Cheatsheet vegetables for a picky child broccoli-denying
Diet coke, and a slice of pie for eyes’ appetite
Bright light shedding zealful ceiling chandeliers wedding-splendour
Beerglasses abundant-effulgent as rites summoning brightness from dead stars
Vapours as drape Gorgorothic plains, gas giants tapering out
Paper cranes crowning outward then trending downwards
Relaxing a-pipe scuppered by a two-toothed beggar with dead worm lips lurid
For hands rounded tips, which stirring lure me forward toward him
Eyes alien to crying great pride belying, perhaps divine power, which body bedraggled denies
Calm to fault at my halting, unsettlingly so
Falling awkwardly into his thrall.
Fell slackless sack heretofore ‘oer thankless back slung
Like rack’s flat, takes to task unmasking essentials
Flattens out a sliver of black satin with silver lace patterns depicting sylvan vignettes
Produces prodigious volume: votive, valuable, victual, curios egg-yellow eastern deserts
Where bestiary page beasts pace
Where miracles are commonplace
Covered-face magi in seal-scarred bracers emblazoned with Solomon’s powers amazing
Riding swift bays many days at horse-sinking pace, paths repeating of leading angels.
Bounder eager to earn pounds, pouncing at a word
He shouts verbs, “Buy, buy!”
Hailing from a far land, afar.
Alchemisland 
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