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Tell me what I should do now. Tell it to me obscenely so I can become a man and an animal. -Salvador Dali, Maniac Eyeball.



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the Bromide Stork
says,

"Patriotism is indeed
a double edged sword.
It both emboldens the bloody
quail,
just as
it narrows the mindful bash."

~mayd semblant~

a fore, a far, a head, a side,

a*

seep-ull-curr;

a spell of dog shaped vessel:

bodies stood upright in the legs

the snout full of provisions

the belly a jumble of furnitures

the head a theatre

where

the dead orate the flowering tributaries
and stand far aback from the pollutions
of the w.ave',
the 'pans' of S
So far forth as they are Teachers
the inconsistent, repugnant hitch
far below sea level
absorbing

the inapproximate allegory
the machine sign shadow garden's
abolished sounding

oil is slow
the building burns
and is a flame

the hoarse night of marble's
empty tongue
the last bumble bee of summer
asleep in the outer petals