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Michael-Sean Lazarchuk

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Dazzle

“We terrorize ourselves with dreams.”    Bombs explode
   “Bingo” in our lives. “A succession of subterfuge.”
“What is love for?” “To say you've cheated, you’ve lied?”
“Yes, you’ve cheated, you’ve lied.”
    “Big Deal!”
“What was your’s was mine and what was mine was blind.”
“Now enormous gatherings of faces float like dum-dum
  bullets past my eyes.” “Oh the repetitious endurance
  of being near you day by day.”   "Fuck...!"
“What an empty swallow.” “What an ugly spot.” “What a total
eclipse.” “Of what?” “A subrogate, a lady,
     You?”
So I said, “I observed the beginning with envy and saw
the end as an illusion.”    “A drift.”
                                                  Eternity of perversion!
        Divorce!  Despot!       “You go your way and I’ll go mine.”
    Bang! Bang!
All of it dead..... “A fart, a thousand pointless words,
        all bullshit.”
“Won’t someone please knock the crap from this destiny?”
        “Now!”


 

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