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ah the root besplitten and aburst with seamy life
befrayed and teeming with bespicious thoughts

behold the offset
hollering and ready to feed

but beware this resurrection is
a trap of the highest order

STAY AWAY

where you are
gravity blankets you body and mind

here
you will float to hedge height

and there your horrors will start
I beseech you
close your curling curtains –

but oh the innocence!
of the vision summoned by omission

a sweet untroubled freedom
wafting under the nose

(the two sides of a dog
tender and devouring
are inseparable in the throat)

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are the two
sides of a river
like the two
sides of a coin
 
page
have two faces
that same way
 
voices
plead
excoriate
 
mourn
mitigate
give voice
 
sanction
its duplicity
indistinguishable
 
in the streaming
of the river
tender
circulation

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