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Why do you like the mindbending music of Jimi Hendrix?
         Immaculate english    the long good friday	   bacon's triptychs,

Did you really share a flat with post-Beat badass poet Jerome Sala?
         Bee-stung lips	hypotenuse of pebbly sand	 thunderbolt Z

How do you sleep knowing the western star has fallen?
         How thirsty, this fever     quotidian         every pine needle points north

Of oranges and pears: which is more spiritual?
         Vacant scare	    all-consuming, so erotic	 story the color of blood

When you spoke with Theseus, what did you learn of the ultimate steps?
         Comprehensive mathematics     gallop of deep winter      night within night