Tag: writing
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LANGEWAGE
One scholar writes demiurge Scourge all earth, Ur-antagonist Discussion of Panurge discouraged, save by courageous Cathars A cat hair from heresy Sire to all unfair, Job felt, doing good only by err An age later third son of first’s second feckless, thoughtless with feather, scribing drunk as Diogenes Mistranslates to Demogorgon, unwittingly commencing poetic tradition…
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Epicurean Satiation
Esculents proffered for perusal by epicures particular-paletted surplus to dietary requirement Lauding their judging tongues as diamonds, what lies upon them they summary in solemn deduction like wise old Solomon They call the lovely food inedible Words indented, printed made such indelible impressions In sweaty kitchens mounting pressure Hissing kettle chef triple checking and blessing…
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Prophesied Great Turk’s Arrival
Ceasing occident Fusing orient Furies heavensent Orbs bent out of orbit. You said that ere he existed, he was now dead or merely hated existence Loathing creation, artist lately elated devastated at what truthing light reads failure Feeding a novel into the hungry grate Sating themselves with loathing of him, with sin Styxworthy indictments frightening…
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Travelling Salesman
Hot night, bite to eat: beef-built burger like a butcher’s idea of Babylon Mutton fortresses from Euphrates to Bosphouros Brisket fries golden spires Cheatsheet vegetables for a picky child broccoli-denying Diet coke, and a slice of pie for eyes’ appetite Bright light shedding zealful ceiling chandeliers wedding-splendour Beerglasses abundant-effulgent as rites summoning brightness from dead…
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CAESAR’S BOAT TRIP
Cameral mind backing through time As into fishing lanes lines casting Smiling glory guides me Caesar of seizures, who leisures in a time of ide-seeing, completes the tides By sawing fires warming hands on seething seas, glancing Alp leeward Votives bleeding for Athena leaving mare nostrum Storm-fought ships’ unlevel floors Hands out before him like…
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