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A Brief Together While
FARCE of common good and common life: to count a person’s
WORTH in currency of culture’s wars. The tribes
BARGE in, dragoon troops, demand oaths.
THERE is a greater mode: of shared delight; for this brief together while, we all live.
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WHERE the battle is joined,
RIDER and horse rush and roar,
AGLOW with that red fervor and vision that
PASTE the valiant to their posts.
Whither?
PASTE a print with ravishing colors; it cannot rival the true scene, sky and clouds
AGLOW. Rising sun streams out beauty, as at the dawn of creation.
RIDER pauses to behold and thinks:
WHERE do I go from here?
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MIDGE clouds bring eerie dusk to midday:
GRAVE clothes for the land with
JUICY host-blood to beckon them.
PLUCK them from clothes before they reach skin.
We, the Living
PLUCK wildflowers for the visit.
GRAVE stone still declaring final date.
MIDGE bites my arm. We, the living:
JUICY prey for pangs of grief.
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The Social Network
LATER generations might miss its role, obscured by form:
SALON, early social network, proto strewer of high
GRADE untruths. Yet also: a mimetic source to spread
MIRTH, witty contagion countering human gloom.
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LORRY drivers from many countries
GNASH their teeth as the vultures
SWOOP over the roads that
EXIST as their buffet lines.
Reflexes
LORRY, if suddenly coming at you, soon to
GNASH you into a wall, like angry teeth, one fell
SWOOP—don’t ask “why not a truck?”
EXIST! Evade! No time to muse on dialects.