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though what she does except lay four eggs at random in the garden once a year and put up with her husband i don't know
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he is much smaller dapper beside her and ridiculously small
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poor little earthy house-inhabiting osiris the mysterious bull tore him at adolescence into pieces and he must struggle after reconstruction ignominiously
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while i i pity monsieur he pesters her and torments her said the woman how much more is he pestered and tormented say i
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this face had no use for light took none of it grew cavernous against stars bore into noon a dark of midnight by its own resources
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yet where it lay in sleep where the pillows held it with the blind plaster over it and the four walls keeping the night carefully it was undone
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sixty-watt light squared to a window frame across a well of air across wind and window leaped and made shine the dark face in its sleep
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stretched into dusky lands like a dark and silent companion evening held out her hands
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why they are always standing in a semicircle with their arms folded their bare legs set apart their breasts protected by hard metal disks
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the man who married magdalene had not forgiven her god might pardon every sin
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i peer into each and see a faceless red center red spokes like a star they are and are not like what we are
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the cloud of mortal destiny others will front it fearlessly but who like him will put it by
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he will not go behind his father's saying and he likes having thought of it so well he says again good fences make good neighbours
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like sculptured effigies they might be seen upon their marriage-tomb the sword between each wishing for the sword that severs all
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perchance my heart may pardon you this deed but be no coward: you that made love bleed you must bear all the venom of his tooth
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and one foolish man climbs up his death high in his elliptic face
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caught in the car's closed door beating its whole bird body against it trying it appeared to bang himself free
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and who knows how long he'd been there wailing who knows he and the other i mistook at first for a bat
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the sky was full of birds the day her daddy died i think his widow said he drowned one morning on a fishing trip
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i think his name was sonny runs out from his duplex to pull my father off you see where i'm going with this
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nose and mouth each time he comes up for air imagine the birds coasting away and the waters suddenly calm
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moral if you were born to walk the ground remain there do not fool around
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what do you stand on such high legs for why this length of shredded shank you exaltation
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is it so that you shall lift your centre of gravity upwards and weigh no more than air as you alight upon me stand upon me weightless you phantom
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i heard a woman call you the winged victory in sluggish venice you turn your head towards your tail and smile
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how can you put so much devilry into that translucent phantom shred of a frail corpus
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queer with your thin wings and your streaming legs how you sail like a heron or a dull clot of air a nothingness
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settle and stand on long thin shanks eyeing me sideways and cunningly conscious that i am aware you speck
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come then let us play at unawares and see who wins in this sly game of bluff man or mosquito
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if that is so then i believe a little in providence protecting the innocent but it sounds so amazingly like a slogan a yell of triumph as you snatch my scalp
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blood red blood super-magical forbidden liquor
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such silence such suspended transport such gorging such obscenity of trespass
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queer what a big stain my sucked blood makes beside the infinitesimal faint smear of you queer what a dim dark smudge you have disappeared into
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autumn leaves your hair the hue of rain-drenched bark your voice don't ever leave me
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under the sun it glowed under the moon more glowing
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there's no one tosses them about but mr nobody
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rose leaves when the rose is dead and so thy thoughts when thou art gone love itself shall slumber on
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a mass of moth-eaten cloud threadbare and spun across a bullish moon
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when something drops onto her toes one night she calls it a fox but she feeds it
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thus wasted joys will show their early bloom yet crumble at the breath of a caress snatch it thou scatterest wide its emptiness
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chide not it was not vanity nor sense but nature cadencing her joy of strength to the harmonious limits of her right
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just as you're having what you wanted most you want it more and more until that's more than you or it or both of you can bear
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as they would flail crops when the spring comes and flood and tassels rise as my head
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flamingos and now the moon pressing back through the tree-line
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take not the name in vain direct thy swearing unto some effect
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kiss not thy neighbor's wife of course there's no objection to divorce
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bear not false witness shake your head and say that you have heard it said
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the sorrow on her face is sealed: the living flesh is turned to stone she knows all all that life and time can tell
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they linger awhile in the dazzling sepulchral city delicately exploring their romantic diseases the gangster the capitalist and their proteg
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in predawn dark a rat falling from a rafter is a dollop wind a whir and suddenly i'm remembering my mother teaching me to bake her hot water sponge cake
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them as 'as munny an' all wot's a beauty the flower as blaws but proputty proputty sticks an' proputty proputty graws
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luvv what's luvv thou can luvv thy lass an' 'er munny too
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larn'd a ma' bea i reckons i 'annot sa mooch to larn but a cast oop thot a did 'bout bessy marris's barne
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bessy marris's barne 'siver i kep 'um i kep 'um my lass tha mun understond i done moy duty boy 'um as i 'a done boy the lond
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with the shocked amp seeded sweetness of an apple split open by a meat cleaver
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oh no no no it was too cold always i was much too far out all my life and not waving but drowning
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when they are in use when synagogues are in ruins weeds are not to be picked there
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so much hurting to get to this moment when i'm beneath you wanting it to go on and to end
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forward the gracious hours have fared and see the sun is risen
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what do you see i asked but she didn't move or answer me
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our backs to the storm we play out old anxieties losing each game to time and starting over we must save what's being threatened and not ask why
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full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight and custom lie upon thee with a weight heavy as frost and deep almost as life
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just amazing i think i could wrap my arms all the way around the -miles-circumferenced earth
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the trumpet of a prophecy o wind if winter comes can spring be far behind
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there is a little lightning in his eyes iron at the mouth his brows ride neither too far up nor down
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in harvest time whilst she might go and glean then well away for she undone was clean
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peace quod the towny mouse why speakest thou so loud and by the hand she took her fair and well welcome quod she my sister by the rood
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and made her there against her will remain that had forgotten her poor surety and rest for seeming wealth wherein she thought to reign
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alas my poynz how men do seek the best and find the worst by error as they stray and no marvail when sight is so opprest
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then seek no more out of thyself to find the thing that thou hast sought so long before for thou shalt feel it sitting in thy mind
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mad if ye list to continue your sore let present pass and gape on time to come and deep yourself in travail more and more
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wherefrom fall all architectures i am i say are likenesses of the first beloved whose flowers are flames lit to the lady
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she it is queen under the hill whose hosts are a disturbance of words within words that is a field folded
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how some they have died and some they have left me and some are taken from me all are departed all all are gone the old familiar faces
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the loose earth shook the very hills were stirred the silence of the dead was all i heard
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what can be done we know but have no fear if you fail now we shall not see or hear
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the sun was over our town it was like a blade kicking cottonwood leaves we ran toward storms wherever we looked the land would hold us up
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now welcome somer with thy sonne softe that hast this wintres wedres overshake and driven away the longe nyghtes blake
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dear christ when thy new vintage fills my cup this hand shall shake no more nor that wine spill
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not rain but fine mist falls from my lemon tree a balm of droplets in green shadow
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why aren't you here where are you come back
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lugging my exploded home and trampling on my own name i trek to a yearned deformation
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shut up smug face you know nothing of ugliness even that which you've long bankrolled
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the japanese earthquake shifted the axis of the earth moving japan twelve feet closer to north america each day shortened by one second
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the thinning shade of autumn is an inherited oriental red worn to pink nap worn to thread
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the basses of their beings throb in witching chords and their thin blood pulse pizzicati of hosanna
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must be time to get up i assumed parked outside border patrol vehicles i had to choose
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years old and look like a bad nail by god they yanked me out i can tell you
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ain't so much me i'm asking for dog like to get out and piss think they remember
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near the main gate of gary steel i stop the amber light pours out of stacked horizons monstrous cranes hang over suburbs
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the sangomo told marvin you are crushed by some weight only your own ancestors can help you
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your repentance all but obscured beneath a burgeoning yellow fog of frankly more conspicuous resentment is sufficient
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your intermittent concern for the sick the suffering the needy poor is sometimes recognizable to me if not to them
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aluminum there was the smell of salt but it was not the salt of the earth not the sea itself
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(then shall my fickle soul forget thy agony of bloody sweat my rifle hand is stiff and numb
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so let me render back again this millionth of thy gift amen
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o swallow flying from the golden woods fly to her and pipe and woo her and make her mine and tell her tell her that i follow thee
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in the dining room there is a brown fish hanging on the wall who swims along in his frame while we are eating dinner
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only the night air carries your words up to the dead i watched them rise become remote
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of all the questions you might want to ask about angels the only one you ever hear is how many can dance on the head of a pin
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