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I hesitated in putting a
lot of long poems tonight

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because of the time
factor, but I stuck this one in

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just because it's nice.

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"Prelude of Seven
Visitations to an Execution."

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Leaves rub against my window.

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At night I can
hear them growing.

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A few times they have attempted
to take root in my arm.

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Snow on its way from home
buries its tracks in the street.

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Ghost storms wrap
themselves in the cold

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and spin away whistling.

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I am on fire painting
the walls with shadows.

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At the ends of my
arms stone sleep.

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A locust walks across the room
with a piece of the hostess

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between his teeth.

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His coat made from
such occasion pulsates.

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At 10 midnights crystal lady
slithers from the balcony.

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Faces poke out from
beneath her gown.

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They enter the
chamber through a hole

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created by her imagination.

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I am standing at
the end of a rope

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where astral equations are
being seared to my eyelids

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by veterans of
domestic tortures.

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Their general who is made of wax
is standing to near the fire.

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Staring up from the rug he says,
becoming a hero depends greatly

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on dying at the right time.

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It is 10:27.

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Yawns are being slipped
into the drinks.

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I am covered with the scars--

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I'm covered with scars
of confectionery ribbons.

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Patriots come to
lick my purple heart.

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Roots grow out of my feet.

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At my throat lizard
sing Byzantine anthems.

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In the experimental
garden, I kiss

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the marble breasts
of plastic statuettes

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hoping they will come to life.

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But they only go on living.

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Spiders are digging graves along
the corners of their mouths

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if only they would stop smiling.

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When midnights
crystal lady signals,

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the floor of the
scaffold cringes.

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As I dangle above the black air,
bankrupt patrons of lost arts

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move their hands from
pockets to throats.

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Tomorrow they will
buy this poem.

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