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Cannot
This cannot be life; this painful strife; the slow denial Of everything Crumbling statues become glib surrealist limbforms Born-bolds torn down like fence posts mid-storm.
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Tiresian communion
Shameless pale shade Homer’s blameless Ghost in my warrior’s place, wearing his face Speaking with foreknowledge of that life’s deeds.
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Old heat
No one knows and no one cares No one remembers how he looked atop his destrier None of fop; all of wind and movement; a sail of skin, hoof, mind and hide. Back when his floppy flaxen hair reached his burgeoning smithy shoulders At ten, he could hold older men above his head. Since, time’s…
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No More
The Lord of this world died tonight at twelve past midnight None permitted entry, save family and friends from the Gentry From after-silent maw one snake warning sigh jailbroke, rattle-addled, Filling the room like adulation upon an idol’s entry Like gas due injurious inhalation Upon a spectacle century’s applaudnow end. He loved horses, that you…
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Memorybrother
Spicy scents Reminders of unbroken past tense From insentience to insentience through entropy Intense reality feeling at the dismal end of proceedings Greased with fortunes bequeathed from dead to dying men Pyres highering at corpse imbibing Greenery coming alive when we’re eaten Given back to life-lending loam, unknown words on a headstone Indecipherable as jibes…
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