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Muddy soul
I’ve got a muddy spirit Death coming Do not fear it I’m exploring the floor devoted to cowards, linking arms with Dante On the island of the day before, writing amorous passions for Ferrante Animal magnetism en flagrante delicto Ship of my cunning coming in From the mid-Atlantic docks. My hoarded thoughts things betwixt Never…
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King of pugilists at prayer
Bait a jab, dip Clasp hands behind hips, lift From Keramoti to Thassos, boxers by dayglow go to heroic groves Clove-scented, seated on cloven stone cloven-footed one’s throne Overgrown with old foliage, foliate head emerging Flaxen hair a chervil mound, summoned by Amergin He most unservile, rilled nubile verdant Dante rootcheeked Atlantean Lord of leafed…
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Slympics
Slim pickings this year’s Olympics Injecting, pinpricks, they’re no diabetics They’re not letting in Ozempics Seditionists blowing up trams, cutting wires Fuck knows I’m trying, lion defiant God loves a tryer, triumphant medalist I’m on the pedestal with my golden fistful, Midas Argent consider a failure Ardent for thy grail. Wanna win you better pray,…
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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…
Alchemisland 