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"badger in spectacles"

(to a beloved)

you have walled up

fecundity

in a flood of mammal’s milk

you suck

the tit

dry

a badger

in spectacles

you take

Fear

as your bride

swarming her hive

in a narrow suit

you

kick

the sealed door

of

her tomb

watered with bile

bitterness hath grown

climbing ego’s

trellis

you make the squares

you buy the time

sitting in white socks

you rummage

the

black womb

of

your computer

"turquoise egg"

(for stoneking)

i read you my poetry

you say

i

have a misplaced modifier

you learnt this in high school

the sky weeps

your black shoes are iron bananas

all your agony is in your feet

you place them on blood-red

velvet

the sky weeps

you drop my 3 faces

out of the window

you drop my turquoise egg

the sky weeps

i creep under the window

i search for my 3 faces

the spokes of my black umbrella are broken

they poke the trunk of a white birch

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