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fling out the hooves of your hands open your breast pluck out like an aztec your heart howling its cro-magnon cries that compel to battles of riddance
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split the boy his thorax throat pierce-peel the craw a jag-crystalled crust his black scoria slag
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i followed my heart he shrugs so matter-of-fact you might not see behind his words
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my bird-light gutters its call had sounded like dry wood giving up a nail
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master of students aquinas is petrified but says yes
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listen how their rhymes sing the little deaths you live
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my name is kazim which means patience i know how to wait
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one day after another perfect they all fit
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and as my bridegroom comes and takes me away from you you all ask me what is wrong and i say it is that i will never win
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some days he'd set the aperture the opening as wide as he could to ruin the picture to let all the light in
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how difficult it is to face the white of nothingness of clarity we win
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language escapes me passion is smoke i dissolve
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i am talking to you fool don't just sit there stretchin' yo' face
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the grass rips up the morning snow lights jagged amp yellowish my aids face is hidden your rot my epistemology
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so crawl up baby come on keep on floatin sliding' always: for black journeys always in holiness
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this verse says kabir is your key to the universe if you can figure it out
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did i find says kabir the beloved that i've become one with
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does anyone know what i'm talking about says kabir
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i have often asked myself and never found an answer whence kindness and gentleness come i don't know it to this day and now must go myself
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look just she high-fives me it's professor
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i remember especially the hen house and the soft clucking that filled the sunlit yard
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the coming of electricity half next time amp half this my five my unending ache at the absence of you
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i do not expect that many readers will want to be masochistic enough to want to read the book in order from cover to cover
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and in the dazzling deafening debauch of bugles sunlight of huzzas and drum bring glory to the love-drunk folks at home
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the light autoerotic theatrical with an unbearable listing stalled in cusp in leonine torpor is courage artifice
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leave the hotel without baggage fly direct to geneva they await you there
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possum observed that the local portagoose folk dance was danced by the same dancers in divers localities in political welcome
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any lapse and you tumble back into the brain's forks rick-racking the minutes for the lock that unclicks the coffining dark the hooded stranger with papa's voice the makeshift bed
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sold the damn lot six weeks later sordellus de godio quan ben m'albir e mon ric pensamen
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in meiner heimat where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard
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and you wept and flowers bowed their heads and doves in the silk of their sorrow stumbled
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i won't be dying after all not now but will go on living dizzily hereafter in reality half-deaf to reality in the room perfumed by the fire that our inextinguishable will begins
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for those who accused their ancestors of eating salt there were these hands tracing what was left after the sweat
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i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness starving hysterical naked dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery
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light was on its way from nothing to nowhere
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light was all business light was full speed when it got interrupted
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i find it in a field of feathers pink-crested a knuckle of bone picked clean by the wind a pale mohawk mounted on stone
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a still point byzantine one star in a galaxy of trillions i had to find my friends
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if i hadn't jostled the mosaic maybe i could stop the picture buildings of stirred beach glass
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stars are the campfires of exiles
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language exists to pull things close
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first the factory stood quiet as an asylum then the annihilating mallee with its red fists of blossoms and the mountain ash creeping over it like a stain
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i have no proof but i tell you there were leadlight windows here once barred they cast a little striped light on the women
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londonderry cork galway kildare as i say the words they are sucked away to a hemisphere in darkness
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and it was lucky or as lucky as it would get there was time and light the hawks and dogs had not been written yet and were still out of sight
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am one-quarter past distant chimes inform me this
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daybreak lies chained to a blue wall from which the stars drop and lose all meaning
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crescent moons hover above her ancient white feathers birdless wingless lost to their own meaning
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here the sea curls its granite lip at them and flings a winter storm like a cough or the seadog drops them at hannibal's shores where they'll stand stupefied like his elephants
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darling was his final word for her softly in arabic
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here is the painted world in an actual image [i have no theory for the clouds he sees
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over forty years ago a tense cunningly moving tale by the hunga then he moved on and i went close behind
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without legs she does as much sitting as anyone who ever sat on a throne
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the sun came miss brooks and we goofed the whole thing i think
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there's a flutter of grey through the trees ah the exquisite curves of her dress as she passes fleet with her feet on the path where the grass is
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it was only a flutter of grey but the vaguest of raiment's impossible chances has set my heart beating the way of old dances
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little soul it is strange even now it is early
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thou seemest to my fancy singing here and gathering flowers as that fair maiden when she lost the spring and ceres her more dear
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the clouds part the rain ceases the sun casts now upon everyone its ancient shadow
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what i got was the smell of goneness the smell of screen doors where moths have spent their wing powder beating failingly to reach the light
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i will stand in the open doorway under the weight of watching trees and moon and care for it as one of my own
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i will inhale with words every ear pressed upon open air i will not be meek
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you remind me of the necessity of having more hope than fear and of sounding out terrible names
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i am to cry out loud like a hungry lamb cry loud enough to waken wolves in the night
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ancient branches crack and splinter into dust large wings snap open in spring like carpets splayed out over the railing
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daily in the density there is life on the edge of the knife that cuts the world into hemispheres of sense and death
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tree the breeze combs white into a final note her diminuendo poco a poco
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moon-afro myself outpaces me in wonder of her
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the cracked shell of his translucent skin buried in rubble now and those teeth all that remain of terrible and invisible jaws
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a giant squid finally let itself be captured in a photograph and the paper nautilus ripple-flashes scarlet and two kinds of violet when it silvers you near
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they so liked breast milk joanne fell asleep amp leaked the ants woke up made the sweet climb
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make a pretty cayenne path for over the once-food-strewn sill
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the number of communal legs alone exceeds the stars underground
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a snail sank grand in puss and rime on three coils (equals one tea-wheel) white the wheel brings the bill the bill bald
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when they could take no more when all that you had was given you lined your grave with paper
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owl astronaut burgeoning owl is a gift you give to me give to you terrible other things happen
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when my blood seemed uncontrollable ran messy with pulp down their fingers my cousins finally left the room laughing closing the basement door behind them
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when ecstasy approaches why do you resist what are you afraid of can you please unbutton your shirt now
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then the sun wiped its forehead with long filmy fingers and beamed afresh
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although they are shaped like a parachute thanks to the air pressure beneath them raindrops explode on landing
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sometimes it falls on bare rocks at others it raises large forests of leafing trees
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back the beam was there something broken i weather compliant i rally
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i'll read entrails for omens action figure entrails
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the gold iron floor lamps the off-brand running shoes fila but not really
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there has never been any life beyond this circle of firelight until now if now is no dream but an asia
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stiffened with silence broke the private change the public good to dive into pits of leaves
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my only child how i've betrayed you
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gold nearly blinding herdsmen and kings and with its broad warm tongue a cow licking the afterbirth from the hay
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my fish fast and loose shoot fish in a kettle the boys like the girls who like heavy metal on sabbath on slayer on maiden and venom
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she asked about my heart its evasive flight but can i trust her with its secrets
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blinded by light or black cloth so many ways not to see others suffer
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four birds outside this afternoon four distinct calls in a dispirited late daylight
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oh and the bored laughter behind the camera and the impossibility the inconsequence of any sympathy
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large moon the deep orange of embers also the scent the griefs of others beautiful at a distance
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in my hands i hold a broom in my heart ashes ashes
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make me a figure blue little throats scintillas of the anatomical
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sometimes the smallest things weigh us down small stones that we can't help admiring and palming
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look at the tiny way this lighter vein got inside look at the heavy gray dome of its sky
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boulder grain planet dust what fills the stones fills us
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i remember or i have a feeling i could be living somewhere with you weighted down the way we aren't now
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