Our La Brea Tar Pit

Narrative:

Two birdies in
a puddle splashing.

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Comparative:

Dashing passion in
the pebbles like
two criminals too
happily and hastily
ensconced in laying
waste to expectation
to retain a taste
of anything.

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Declarative:

We are many things,
but mostly must be
deeply social animals –
how else to understand
the lunacy of such
a tacit vast cooperation? –
all these birdies in
their puddles with their
story-lines that for
a moment seem
to make the muddle
seem pellucid.
Bubbling up from
our La Brea Tar Pit,
darling, damned
if we’re not lucid.


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