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on my mind were wives
                                         having found fault
by abandoning meanders empty
my own experience in particular
page-to-face logomachy a disabling mistake to
suppose it should although i’m on page 288

                                                                 just because this cathedral
was put up once upon
               you can’t be sure
                                                                   only artists embarrass us
in this way and delight in vagueness
but not its attributions so change when it suits
you to absently foreknow pulling life from the hat
                        we’re headstanding in
on this inventory of irresourceable nakedness
dubious past the parody excellence
is always founded
                              on faith madonna & child glorifying slavery
               a nubile phone
never off the hook how’d you like to be
            with democracy going along with
                     a majority
             laying lore about
come my love wordy of desire heavy as curtain in its nomadism

certain compromise will have to be
trumped up this is not a dialogue
due to market forces i can’t love you
                  now have you seen a dog called lucifer

which stone exactly which
namurian grit colour where did
you kick or where did it fall
why spice up with blood or death
a need to poem the snoring sea

possessions don’t mean like having a family
                                     to belong to or who
                                                                      can go into
a garden without gardening

everything by its direction having noted which