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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…
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Vidya
I say the best game is Doom II Marooned on hell’s shore, abhorrent Plutonia Experiment You disagree, suggest Hexen II Willingly hanging with you medically considered self-abuse It’s like I’m paying last life’s dues, my name is Earl you’re last on my list Your kiss was on that list but much nearer the top of…
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Games played with the moon
Moonbound loon, printing runes in my master’s annals Tomb of old titans, striations and rilles once thought canals Ocean’s master of motion, commotion among the low nations Atlantean eraser, brine bracing braziersmothering Carving handshort devotions with Occam’s razor Lurid, luring fascinator, who turneth me Toward which ravenous lupines croon tunelessly in cold eternity Many degrees…
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Wrists and trysts
Born depressed, head’s recesses dreaded Recessive genes in surplus enshadow my sulcus Born a dark shogun, shadowed Atlas world ashoulder Holding onto the speakers, feeling noise Noddy Holder As I get older my nodding off increases in frequency. Show tongue I’ll show gun, I’m nine times Basquiat I’m the Uileann piper leaving Hamelin with rats…