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Death Of A Good Man

 
The blue rolls about him as he peers down the sky
Across metal soft surfaces which stick to your hands
And candy whisper clouds cross in the (v) alleys
Fighting and dividing
Billowing; exploding in silence/
We fight in the bowels of autumn. Clamps
on our nose, plugs in our ear, with our portable
walls for the concealment of solitude.
Geraniums peer around a corner
cutting her neck on the bloody sharp wall.
The moon is held up by a shadow.
Our hope is alive as the sliding glass plates
on slickery sharp edges explore our viscera with
splinters tearing liquid sounds from our lungs
As we bleed
and weep
From the depths of the crisp, cold
          autumn

city
you android

1977

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