Tag: love
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Hidden Ritual
In 1971 the Devil released a book and an album After a millennium in the pit he had a head full of tunes Every good guitarist owing and betrothed Every decent singer owes him their throat’s gold Arousal at fame’s suggestion, their souls by deed his at the moment of their disposal All the pills…
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Barnacles
Your enemies must think you useful, they must think themselves close friends You must always be in the state of remembrance, so deep you get the bends Where a cardinal plots his zucchetto my bay fringe flops across my forehead like a common comma, like the sloping tattoo a tide slops on a golden bay…
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Prying Off The Boards
Reveal of day like a long-sought, long-thought breast unveiled I seek only completion, a quest to fetch you We apes cannot help but lech near you, wretches and curs for and before you. Four of me before me Glass backdoors light-invaded populating like a cinema screen First one, no cuckoo’s nest Next two, towers ring-obsessed…
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Periphery Blue
Border blue Quiet surface I peer right through Fathoms deep, fathomless depths Bathing weights for sounding What you feel you swaddle like a foundling What I feel you smother like a changeling The kittens of my wants drowned in the blue burlap you made from Mary’s cloak. I see storms in you, shooing away storks.…
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Dead Elephants
Dead elephant flesh undrawn creaseless under ice Buried beneath Iveagh gardens Given fatal acid doses by jolly dopers, into-situation-ropers, haunting campuses with flyers Discordian opus printed at Jim Garrison’s HQ; when the president’s head blew that guy flew a few feet off the ground making his view askew He had seeds and gardened them, he…
Alchemisland 