Co-construed

Conglomerate

deposits –

tender growths –

what is this

splendid host

of sentiences

who co-construe

the ballyhoo

of you?

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Thinkable

Lately when you wake

your head feels large

and ponderous, inhabited

by wandering vicinities of mind –

all grinding, thick and slow –

comprised of catalytic

memories which once

were quick and fostered flow

but now in aggregate

bog down to sludge: inaction

massing up out of dim grudge

and infelicitous distraction

which describe the whole

of what you find your past is

when you wake. Yet there’s

a break: a kind of dawn comes

not to take you from the mud

but to inveigle you to look

up from it -- understand

there’s no below without above.

You reasonably do not seize

a last great curing hope

in this, but the abyss

diminishes by half.

It’s thinkable to laugh.

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Eternal Existential Truth

Can you believe

what we just saw?

There ought to be

a law.













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It's His Dolly

It's his dolly.
Calls her Molly.












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Bowing Your Nose

Anything goes
when you're
bowing your nose.















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Exquisitely Inimitable Physics

Ravenous, we fall upon reality –

create and then succumb

to the P.R. that gets us to desire

a piece of taffy, or a thigh,

or the bestriding force

of Shakespeare’s Lear.

We commandeer the course

of all the little bits of precious

evidence our eyes comprise

to utilize as proofs that they

and we are here. It is a gorgeous

enterprise, this grand compulsion

to resize and reconfigure form

and scent and taste and feel,

to render an exquisitely

inimitable physics of the “real” –

to make it warm, to make it

seethe and breathe: to conjure up

a self we may not have to rue.

What else is there to do?

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Long After Adam Had His Fall

In the green beyond of All

long after Adam had his fall

and learned to cover dick and ball

with boxer shorts –

easily an eon after Eve had gone

with a retort and all the kids

and he was rid of everything except

his centuries of memories --

the Serpent reappeared

and gradually morphed into

a sort of snake-ish dog and hung

about with Adam on

his jungle vines and taught him

what a friend was. We know

that much at least. We don’t

know what the end was.








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