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IT BEGAN WITH A THOUGHT, AS IT ALWAYS DOES, AND ENDED WITH WE DANCED UNDER FIRECRACKER STARS AND PURPLE CANDLE MOONS, AND WAITED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE WAY THE SKY VERELY LOST INSIDE IN AN INVISIBLE MOMENT IN AN INDIVISIBLE DIRIGIBLE FLOATING NORTHWARD, FORWARD, TOWARD A LOWERED LUNAR CARPET OF GLOWING PIXELS, WE FILLED OUR SLENDER GLASS LIPS WITH MAGENTA CHAMPAGNE AND BUBBLED OUR WAY TO THE ALABASTER DOVES PERCHED IN VISELED THEIR WINGS LIKE FEATHERED SCROLLS, EYELASHED TAPESTRIES, AND CLOSED THEIR OPAL EYES SETIME, LIKE A SEAM WE EMBRACED, INTERTWINED, TURQUOISE VINES IN A ZEPPELIN, I MET HER IN THE HALL AND I ASKED HER FOR A QUESTION TO AROUSE ME FROM WHISPERED TO MY BLISTERED EYES, WHY DO OWLS SING AT NIGHT? AND WALKED AWAY WHILE

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YOUR SINUSOIDAL BODY SLITHERING UNDER MINE LIKE A FROG UNDER SCALPEL, YOUR BREASTS LIKE PHOSPHORESCENT BEADS OF SWEAT MELTING INTO YOUR LUNGS; SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS RUNGS UPON RUNGS DISAPPEAR AN INSTANTANEOUS, CUTANEOUS, EXTEMPORANEOUS YEAR, BURIED BENEATH THE SOIL OF YOUR BED, MOISTENED AND FERTILIZED, UNTIL A TADPOLE, BLIND AND SWIMMING,

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A SLIPPERY AMPHIBIAN WITH NO HEART AND RED HOURGLASS EYES; I WISH IT WERE OTHER THAN AN AMPHIBIAN GIBBON WITH AMBIDEXTERITY AND CLAIRVOYANT LUMINESCENSE BETWEEN MY PURNEON WOES, BROADCAST ON MY SHIRTSLEEVES LIKE HIP SONGS ON LIP-BALMED ACROSS SLEEP, LOST ACROSS SCHOOL, LOST ACROSS DRUGS, LOST DAYS OF HERENESS, OF PRESENT AWARENESS, OF BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT LIVING, NOT THE DAYS OF WILD EYES SET UPON THE FUTURE INSOMVICTION, ABSOLUTION, FAITH IN ANYTHING OTHER THAN LOVELINESS TRUMS, TURQUOISE TURTLENECKS, FERTILE SEX WITH MOANING MYRTLE, TEXT ME ANOTHER SEXY FLEXING BREAST PLEASE, WET EASE, WET

MY PLAYHOUSE IS UNDERNEATH OUR HOUSE, & I HEAR PEOPLE

LONGER, DISTANT GALAXIES FLOATING INTO AND AWAY FROM OBLIVION AT THE SAME OBLIVION, BORN INTO OBLIVION, DEAD IN OBLIVION, BUT NOT OBLIVISOBER PEOPLE LIVING DRUNKENLY, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO LIVE, NO OTHER

THOUGHTS ARE THE SHADOWS OF OUR FEELINGS - ALWAYS DARKER, EMPTIER,

I LOST WRITING IN AN ACCIDENT OF ANALYSIS AND HACKED OFF LIMBS AND KEPT ON TRYING TO FIT THE LET-

I BELIEVE THAT ALMOST ALL OUR SADNESSES ARE MOMENTS OF TENSION THAT WE FIND

I LOST WRITING IN AN ACCIDENT OF ANALYSIS AND HACKED OFF LIMBS AND KEPT ON TRYING TO FIT THE NOT SCIENTIFIC TALENT, BUT PURE, INHERENT, NAENOUGH TIME, NEVER ENOUGH TIME, SATURATED SECONDS, SATURATED WITH NOTHING BUT NOTH-

I LOST WRITING IN AN ACCIDENT OF ANALYSIS AND HACKED OFF LIMBS AND KEPT ON TRYING TO FIT THE NOT SCIENTIFIC TALENT, BUT PURE, INHERENT, NAENOUGH TIME, NEVER ENOUGH TIME, SATURATED SECONDS, SATURATED WITH NOTHING BUT NOTH-

I LOST WRITING IN AN ACCIDENT OF ANALYSIS AND HACKED OFF LIMBS AND KEPT ON TRYING TO FIT THE NOT SCIENTIFIC TALENT, BUT PURE, INHERENT, NAENOUGH TIME, NEVER ENOUGH TIME, SATURATED SECONDS, SATURATED WITH NOTHING BUT NOTH-

FLEAS INTEREST ME SO MUCH THEY ARE PERFECT, ANCIENT, SANSKRIT, THEY DO NOT BITE TO EAT, THEY BITE ONLY TO JUMP; THEY ARE THE DANCERS OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERE, DELICATE ACROBATS IN THE SOFTEST AND MOST PROFOUND CIRCUS; LET THEM GALLOP ON MY SKIN, DIVULGE THEIR EMOTIONS, AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH MY BLOOD, BUT SOMEONE SHOULD INTRODUCE THEM I WANT TO KNOW THEM CLOSELY, FLEAS INTEREST ME SO MUCH THEY ARE PERFECT, ANCIENT, SANSKRIT, THEY DO NOT BITE TO EAT, THEY BITE ONLY TO JUMP; THEY ARE THE DANCERS OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERE, DELICATE ACROBATS IN THE SOFTEST AND MOST PROFOUND CIRCUS; LET THEM GALLOP ON MY SKIN, DIVULGE THEIR EMOTIONS, AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH MY BLOOD, BUT SOMEONE SHOULD INTRODUCE THEM I WANT TO KNOW THEM CLOSELY, FLEAS INTEREST ME SO MUCH THEY ARE PERFECT, ANCIENT, SANSKRIT, THEY DO NOT BITE TO EAT, THEY BITE ONLY TO JUMP; THEY ARE THE DANCERS OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERE, DELICATE ACROBATS IN THE SOFTEST AND MOST PROFOUND CIRCUS; LET THEM GALLOP ON MY SKIN, DIVULGE THEIR EMOTIONS, AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH MY BLOOD, BUT SOMEONE SHOULD INTRODUCE THEM

FLEAS INTEREST ME SO MUCH THEY ARE PERFECT, ANCIENT, SANSKRIT,

FLEAS INTEREST ME SO MUCH THEY ARE PERFECT, ANCIENT, SANSKRIT,

THEY DO NOT BITE TO EAT, THEY DO NOT BITE TO EAT, THEY BITE ONLY TO JUMP; THEY BITE ONLY TO JUMP; THEY ARE THE DANCERS OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERE, THEY ARE THE DANCERS OF THE CELESDELICATE ACROBATS TIAL SPHERE, IN THE SOFTEST AND MOST PROFOUND CIRCUS; DELICATE ACROBATS LET THEM GALLOP ON MY SKIN, IN THE SOFTEST AND MOST PROFOUND DIVULGE THEIR EMOTIONS, CIRCUS; AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH MY BLOOD, LET THEM GALLOP ON MY SKIN, DIVULGE THEIR EMOTIONS, I WANT TO KNOW THEM CLOSELY, AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH MY BLOOD, BUT SOMEONE SHOULD INTRODUCE FLEAS INTEREST ME SO MUCH THEY ARE PERFECT, ANCIENT, SANSKRIT,

I WANT TO KNOW THEM CLOSELY,

FLEAS INTEREST ME SO MUCH THEY DO NOT BITE TO EAT, THEY BITE ONLY TO JUMP; THEY ARE PERFECT, ANCIENT, SANSKRIT, THEY ARE THE DANCERS OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERE, DELICATE ACROBATS THEY DO NOT BITE TO EAT, IN THE SOFTEST AND MOST PROFOUND CIRCUS; THEY BITE ONLY TO JUMP; LET THEM GALLOP ON MY SKIN, THEY ARE THE DANCERS OF THE CELESDIVULGE THEIR EMOTIONS, TIAL SPHERE, AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH MY BLOOD, DELICATE ACROBATS IN THE SOFTEST AND MOST PROFOUND I WANT TO KNOW THEM CLOSELY, CIRCUS; LET THEM GALLOP ON MY SKIN, FLEAS INTEREST ME SO MUCH DIVULGE THEIR EMOTIONS, AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH MY BLOOD, THEY ARE PERFECT, ANCIENT, SANSKRIT, BUT SOMEONE SHOULD INTRODUCE THEY DO NOT BITE TO EAT, I WANT TO KNOW THEM CLOSELY, THEY BITE ONLY TO JUMP; THEY ARE THE DANCERS OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERE, FLEAS INTEREST ME SO MUCH DELICATE ACROBATS IN THE SOFTEST AND MOST PROFOUND CIRCUS; THEY ARE PERFECT, ANCIENT, SANSKRIT, LET THEM GALLOP ON MY SKIN, DIVULGE THEIR EMOTIONS, THEY DO NOT BITE TO EAT, AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH MY BLOOD, THEY BITE ONLY TO JUMP; THEY ARE THE DANCERS OF THE CELESI WANT TO KNOW THEM CLOSELY, TIAL SPHERE, DELICATE ACROBATS FLEAS INTEREST ME SO MUCH IN THE SOFTEST AND MOST PROFOUND CIRCUS; THEY ARE PERFECT, ANCIENT, SANSKRIT, LET THEM GALLOP ON MY SKIN, DIVULGE THEIR EMOTIONS, THEY DO NOT BITE TO EAT, AMUSE THEMSELVES WITH MY BLOOD, THEY BITE ONLY TO JUMP; BUT SOMEONE SHOULD INTRODUCE THEY ARE THE DANCERS OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERE, DELICATE ACROBATS

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