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Jaywalking
Shivering in the mouth of autumn, she conjured pyramids and lambs wool. Reached down into the repository to secure black olives and oranges.
They played a game of right and wrong. His preferred methods of lying included:
1.Withheld information.
2.The melodic tone.
3.The strategic sentence.
She squeezed oranges over his entirety and ground olive pitts to a paste, which she applied to the darker portions of his body, and continued reading how man's first sound was wonder not communication.
A slipknot, a straight flush, a jackknife. He ran the bath like a military operation, and executed his task excepting luxury. The heat of the bath stinging; he vigorously shampood her hair and conditioned twice. She offered a blind choice between story A and story B. His face crinkled in disbelief upon reading the first lines of his selection. "I am a man not to be trusted". Glee sated, she; reckoning, he stammered his way to conclusion.
Revisionist History
The future consists of the evening
a dark cloth dropped on an oppressive mechanism
and the possibility of permanent rem
The Day
played out by petty sadisms
and armed duty,
bore down,
A gargantuan jack-o-lantern
leering with cheerful malevolence
Maneuvering,
deadened steps pave each horizon
with obligation
and it was all obligation,
sensibility perfunctory
muddled pleasure in apathy
interactions endured 'til nightfall
The violet cradled eve
Banks V
Black-edged deep soil
splatters on a wall
quiet
The season's heavy
leaves white unaltered
until the
Rank-burdened deluge
unwraps the dark
Hardened by the luster
of terrifying beauty
Blackness settles
Stoneward
stones loosed stones drift
stoneward
Third Rebel
A rage transmuted
as epiphany
Darkened
with dissonance
fragile
complicated
Separating
the silent pitch
held together
by the night
the ice illuminated
the blue
So blue
a wrap
a barge
a fastening
A sea to snap
the nerve
One X carved for salt
One X carved for lemon
The third a contingency
fresh red on brown
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