Tag: writing
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kingkingkings
How I talk to them Down, not the county Oval Office’s evil resident I am the president When I tell them how it is I know I have residence in their head Deferring, preferring to look down at their shoes Word master, read the charges confirm, long wrap sheet Never had to war on the…
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Rivereverie
Hidden sympathies Unplanned, pleasing Planetary symphonies Between one to two to three; trinity Stars and spheres stir mysterious airs, threnodies Relaxation such that threatens death The breath in my chest stilled My tireless zombie spirit sits, killed Liminal river in which drift sweeping visages, momentary visitors Too swift to be seen intricately yet familiar instinctively…
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Collision colossal
Maidens with swollen teats which are teased and teethed in the Roman dreams of wet ephebes I went to Thebes in robes, all roads Romegoing but not this one, indeed, I went east to Greece My route leads by Rhodes, the boat-choked passage ridged by cart-bloated roads Where a stonebooted colossus casts veed his shadow…
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The matter of the tree-eaters
On the barbican and battlements of that settlement, black feathered adirondacks settle From the mettle-testing battle men are still unsettled The matter of their investigation is put to vote, each casts ballot; peon, priest, prelate, helot We cannot have a repeat of last year Of out house and home they will eat us, we see…