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--- G . C . W A L D R E P Pan on a frying surface, a chartreuse glow, an eggshell blow, any homage tethered to a gilded dais would do as well, any icthyoid presence— hake, halibut, gar-slick gutted wager, slapdash concern, even the sky gets into the act, snow rollers on the clotted fields all working in one direction as am I, my visa, my Zimbabwe, my bedizened esplanade vanishing in decrements as the air rakes down beneath your puckered gaze, selenium, oxygen, xenon, quark, this is the aloe of a perfervid exhortation, this is the Alamo of my bedside tale so cue the troubadors, let them unleash their zydeco, their acid jazz, Le cygne est bien paisible as Max Ernst affirmed, ogled by cherubs, in this cold they beat their delicate wings for warmth, they let their milk-teeth chatter, if this were a Russian novel I'd go on at greater length, I'd bribe the Red Army, I'd greenmail the serfs, my left wrist is fluent in the estrangement of willows but it profits nothing, here in the orangerie of my affections only light breaks the pane of a ferial day. |
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