Aspirations
Of people
well –
the flexing memory
of verbs
speaks
a casual
trigger
fossil
energy evokes
outer realities
vanities
slip-clues
to inner
emphasis
like
walking the plank
*
the virtual body
is bare of face
often hands
sometimes forearms
you can see backs in the warm
the kingly knee
is a sport-stamp
but to bare the throat is aggressive
the real body is at war
the virtual body continues to play
*
the mouth
administrator
and disseminator
blows and burbles
cavity complexities
tide breath
sucking and rocketting
an appraisal
or development plan
the mouth
intervenes in democracy
the palate
and the food
parted
*
so what that
I am surrounded by pirates
teeth
hold the sword
like prescriptive medicine
on the good ship
Substance
our century
colourful, colourful
for such ghostly effects
balancing
reflections
rush to meet us
ill
spill
concessions to predators
the chemists
*
I sing the node
the first point of poetry
the turquoise pendant versicle
when Astarte
graces me to drink
approximate to my beginning
to be a mammal
(among a rough-hand dark
equalities of contact
they say
pretend
there is no need for revolution)
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