Tag: art
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Vanity ending
Dull sanity’s surfeit blanches planned child planet, and all vanity Vanishes as gleaming spires millennia highering are lain as Atlantis Below below cold cod-cursed Atlantic, with Hy-Brasil and the Yanks Seven years before the apocalypse, Ireland will sink in mercy to the Irish More frequent dreams of a red Mersey screaming, gleaming slaughterine Sun’s horses’…
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March of Hannibal unplanned
I am indomitable unstoppable Rome-abhorring Captain Hannibal Children taken, wrenched from mothers’ grasps the land’s span Fed to fearsome hilltop tophets, prophets engage, nay enrage Deities of constraint and malfeasance, grant passage my grand animals Across glacial Alpen passages, that my elpends inexpendable Can depend through that passing and be penned after Rome’s taking Men…
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Wounded at the healing fountain
In flawless forest scrying yon gushing torrent, youth’s fountain Which can reduce my abhorrent wounds to scrapes Borrowing health from tomorrow, implanting into today I know not the ways and hidden sympathies But I have overpaid in blood given and taken I crawl to the marble lip, fingerpainting the sill with myself I recline on…
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Practice makes
360 spin kick, head off like a twist cap Peeling cap when my gat’s gums flap Painting the ceiling, puce strains spurt upward like lapwings Your skull collapsing Roman Empire, last of mind lapsing My elastic band snaps, steel slaps like a Diaz Pulling out a Fisher King at Cripple Creek, denippled king quick to…
Alchemisland 