Friday, April 3, 2020

Polite Retrieval


…from the existential to the human condition to furious religiosity….

those caves such syrup while we develop to slow pace; a mask for us an invisible hand for existence or defined and losing culture

by flesh to die by spirit if belief by dungeon if God

we knot we knead we sit

such total fire sure to re-die or too familiar with intuition     the graves are potent the elixir for faith while we mourn our society

by love to account for behavior or pictures such vice to grip a snail’s neck

our cattle as stamped while touching destruction or bright brilliant bracts

pure aluminum those days at war while defeated, left behind, or groveling              the last gnat if needed we frown while running out of deflectors                        mirrors bleeding glass, tentacles gasping venom, while one sits waiting by life

come and eat with me             I’ll feed you cacti        I’ll pray for manna

such deep force such readiness with words or such reverence for dead souls

by autonomy or slavery or absence made presence to exist in turmoil to placate monsters or so hurt we apologize                     disintegration or mines our lands by murders our reasons our Republic

a palm of silt a silken spigot the faucet racing waves the ghost at tragedy the mail so late

soft discomfort or a discriminatory lesbian or color despises its reflection               so much to bleach while rupturing tomatoes into mischief, black art, or fumbling to define pulsation

those tender for you and only us those lies                 “I knew you’d leave                I knew you’d hate me so for us   I kept it secret”

true love by landmark             truer passion by repentance                the entire clergy pain alms

unborn or reborn so included by misery so touched by beauty          the grays are drawn the curtains are open the veil is under the bed          as forever your scream while knowing it irks so more to doing it

by nautical winds by brooch and snug while I can never believe in you       such raw dislike such self-imposed antipathy for one has not been good

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