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| nuclear, familiar 1 illuminated gathering stirring replications of firelight where we meet with the stars to suffer out the truth these mineral coordinates the nuclear, familiar essence tribe in the crosshairs the delicate breath beneath the juggernaut on the bloodstained road of displacement flood of vehicular sickness a sea of trampling bulls and ghosts beneficent to a fault still-burning lamp in the ditch our stockpiles an avalanche of fortune our properties fluid on paper open to new directives, memoranda spiking in wine-hued waves attacking armies' carefulness and just when victory is certain the spoons are as deadly as knives debilitation gains steam and it's all uphill from here breathtaking staircase of retribution the left and the right unknowing vertiginous in the clouds unprompted along the stuttering heights we pant and stumble through the speech so wary of those in position of power stance and hair, eyes of power avert your gaze when they pass and they'll soon be gone with all our wealth we never bothered to count in the mind no fear and yet this tremolo we can't repress someone's voice betrays us, the script clenched in our rattling hands stay on task, it says, collaboration is our reward, no greater pleasure than convention, than coming together in abundance, the tributaries overflowing these lessons in fulfillment 2 deep down the draconian slope jocular pockets headquarters slipping through the holes landing on tails, everyone accumulating wealth in our wake the dragon out for a sleep walk with fiery morning breath but no one believes in Godzilla her tears oceanic, her shores continental with fashionable last resorts the palms breezy and moist swaying sea-legs negotiate the dance floor cruisers plastered up against the wall in floral array and now the opposite wall captain himself sits in with the brass the volume off the charts these legends play so artfully with us where all meridians meet in the bar the horizon spinning giddily until everyone is horizontal, the cabins cramped and the heads flushed 3 self-centered focus on the other an evolutionary trick invented by a worm on a mission only now perfected, allow me to purchase beverages for all assembled there will be time tonight to talk beauty, business, whatever illuminant by nature we were coughed up along the sound barely alive when we glimpsed a truth believing any rumor, told in near invisibility, the darkness a foil for lies and the liar looks so good, the gleam and spark pale flames in the rain barkless sticks for kindling the enemy lumbers after our rear guard firing rounds of dust as dangerous as steel, dangerous as silver the coins we left for the servants now, who will pick them up? and who will prepare our meals when all are starving? impeccably we fold our hands relieved of the burden to eat knowing well what not to chew when to lay the fork aside and to keep the barrel out of our ears positioned inside twin opportunities to act and to do nothing interest aroused, compounded with every artifice, each stunning tool crafted fixtures, standards, new positions catapults and mortars, words and stones, hurtful as ever shock of harmonics resounding impressions thick in animal light fat dripping into the fire antennae lost among filaments a lock of hair drawn along the hollowed body tracing meandering paths in the air contrails in the night sky gibbous moon sliding along the ecliptic a system of cams to rotate the ascension of sign after burning sign while the irresistible voice of the jungle below surrounds us every continent an island beginning and ending with liquid vowels, every consonant inland dry as bone in the desert and, as we know, we're found there too partials of experience shape our lines, our memory, just so why fear the bee? they organize why fear the storm? its beauty kills and the armies? their love misplaced ourselves? don't know |
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