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Newsletter Dated: 3/18/2001 9:33:33 AMSubject: New Poetry Shadows
I see shadows
through thick spectacles
enlarging humanity
with its sin of dying
or of living
and we become one
--one world
--one soul
--one mouth
speaking as if truth
each utterance
slow gospel
we hunt in thick dying fields
create chaotic Sundays
frozen lakes of skin
drying up wet tears with bone
like a bird’s song--
laughing
you & I
at the ways
by which death prepares
as crossroads
of misgivings
both leading nowhere
and returning
weeks later
with nothing
walking past blank faces
of no one
chewing on jerked remains
of freedom
mothers pinning children
to the backyard line
to dry
fold
and store away
with winter’s clothing
each day is new
allowing a little further progression
of self reward
and self satisfaction
chewing up earth
and spitting out stones of dust
as our air leaves with fallen trees
with decay of family
with expansion of city
with shrinking of time
with capricious matrimony of wavering commitment
with sporadic slinging of sperm
any old direction
with stupidity of retardation
in wondering how life got so fucked up
as if life is fucked up
instead of you
tossing blame like a bomarang
throwing and throwing
always returning
still you don’t accept it as your own.
Poem
She opens
Her legs
To my
Wanting
I feel
Her rhythm
Pulsate as
Me
Blowing caresses
Of fingertips
And sticky
Jujubeads
I am the sky
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