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di viva luce etterna what smile can outshine an afterlife made only of rays not particles—energy not mass dispersed like water droplets from splashed tears but beams blown outward as sunlight or reflected as moonlight or as flame as fire fanned the wind blows through the grass on the plains and seems like waves over the ocean flowing endless shimmering undulating like the grave overgrown stones buried sorrow buried under snow repetition pirated from sleep sleep filigreed with eyepatches parrots filigreed with repetition Hamlet parrots Polonius Polonius patches Laertes Laertes pirates sleep I patch Hamlet—nephew to the king endless sheets shimmering ghosts the wind blows through the ghosts the plains of buried beneath the hamlets grave grave grave where is thy virtue trapped beneath the hamlets’ sorrow buried under snow Lwow emptied Birin emptied cannons silent now the dead are dry frozen to dirt ditch dug shells whining over it’s over the shells whining over overover roger that 10-4 and out bombs away ducks away geese wild away while away out away way over roger roger rogered simply gruesome Roger as his sons never grew some more or less worse than the Princes in the Tower celluloid given over to lasers klieg lights given to digital LEDs bits of bits stage bizness the business of man is death and Beer Nuts wait the business of man is death and Hallmark licensing with that little crown dancing above the logo like a halo on crack wait the business of man is death like Behrens and Buda and zaftig censor censure cinosure wait crown beneath Princess and pea overhead vic vers sync sent like a napkin on Burger King’s hallowed head the century spent April thunder Jesus, Mary, where’s Joseph? Easter, mister, put your sell where the get is miser, Midas, geld meld and shoulder Minos pass over, man, send the shine where lambykins went away let wind and rain and hail go high one thing doesn’t mean another “nations of birds” doesn’t mean crow or hawk each with colors mottoflagstatebirdflower bird of prey dove of peace bird on a wire Bird Parker Richard fecking Wilbur Derek fecking Walcott “lark avoid the reaches” like smartass bitches “doves return” knock at the door and ring the bell ill wind unhappiness gross fodder ailments circle after Hadyn listened to “climbing up the walls” he told me that this was insanity “no this is the future,” I said born out of Shoah born out sink lower drum drum drum Christ is not saying we should eat Him He is saying we should eat each other for as loving as we are we are already eating each other we are already drinking our blood we shouldn’t drink His blood because we are swollen piggish from swilling each other ovenovenoven who has oven oven oven oven smoking cheddar golden ozone chimney sweeps douse the fire with their own teen teens Christ is not saying, “eat me beat me seat me we eat” see, we eat, see the tunnel to the terminal collapses the jet plane has to stop stop the jet the plane tender PIG rasher streaky and butt end heads made from skin karma sunk too far inside to find canvas for paint canvas for tent canvas dripping canvas speckled out she comes as white as snow game on Highgate East Cemetary bronze Marx the spot West is Rossetti your brain is more active sleeping than it is watching television whose hell is open admission Swedenborg’s hell was rude huts Dante’s hell, an upsidedown Napoleon, Trans-Siberian Railway caboose Descartes, me me me me me Elton John, The Edge on Harry Potter, The Wallace Collection Irving T. Bush, Bush House wait chicken guarding the foxes ipso facto parental probity essential amiability —hell
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