Duncan McNaughton
GARLICduring periods of intense heat the workmen
wait til late evening to take up the toolsof ignorance with which their exotic
labor is executed as the day is fitonly for troubled sleep and trips
to the urinal. Disoriented.Indeed. Ahorse a horese, they say
meaning but failing to express the simplerecognition that the total number of horses
present does not exceed one. Onewill suffice for sufficient
unto the night has ever beenthe single horse. Enough,
it is enough, even to fail inthought, that speech fail as well.
Indeed. The horseis horseable. The job
in the dark can commence.
DEALING WITH FRUIT
I ate a peach
not the peach Prufrock considered
the peach I ate
was very like the pussy of a girl
a long life pussy peach
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the streets of town unravel
grammatically
according to faith --the body of love unfolds
projectively
driving toward the far goal of Time --floor it, the bridge is lit
by lantern light, all the way
across its graceful blade