timor mortis conturbat me

for robert vander molen

two swallows in india in love with their nest of this man’s home / so pissed at their shit on the porch

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of gathering of building and rebuilding / in a fit he took a hose
sluiced the nest away / they grieved so that when the man heard

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at his door found not a guest or a census-taker / but the swallows knocking their heads against the door

and become pulp