Robert Sheppard
Angel at the Junk Box
im Frank Sinatra
Midnight Ride 3
IM 7
Twentieth Century Blues 57
I
Breath betweens the sexy brass
quakes against the battlements of the tier;
lute song off the blames. Moaning mini-
symphonics underwrite maze blazing of cries
in the mids of my faces...
-dict no dirty crowd, taut; taughts,
held and slackened to twirl, waver-
songing
II
Cooling, she might hear you
sing and know the same words
and shift.
Cash it now and every blip
is a dizzy how. Propelled
into a cringe, wrapped
in a growl:
the way you mock your blands
III
Mute up your factitious sensation
(even a ring of breath to kill
Transmute a crazed phrase of male hysterics
Break up this song into this gut-voiced holding
IV
Bounce a pebble voice on the
waves of this smile could then
if the sinking full-bowled
potential point of inform
Poison emotion. Floors crawl
a new song, doesn’t fluff? A
strange stress on not-speech.
Hats on your horns gentlemen!
Ease a sample hammer
on the fall, blast over the stock.
Repeats; repeat tobacco-toned town;
the voice in my shivering circle.
V
Black Kansas, sit! Sudden guitar
gets it odderly
Hear those folded arms and clarity -
the doors of deception off-beats up-beat a
croak to the full;
risking flats affirm music
space him still low
spread to the lowest in time
to the admissable
last syllable cymbal out(->)s
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