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“I am sure If I were An artist I would concentrate On the bone end Of a bird’s broken wing Or the bullet hole In cold, damp, dead flesh And the transition from death’s cold warmth To the putrefaction Of a biochemical mess And I am sure If I were An artist That these dead and dying things Which are within themselves Beauty Would bring me closer To her life And to her Beauty Which is beauty within itself”

“There was no reason Why I was sitting there Poised firmly on the edge Of a visible silence A terrible leashed quiet as though The dogs of hell had rushed by Five jaw-snapping minutes earlier Dragging this concert of silence behind them Tied to their tails by An eternal (endless) string. I, there, sitting Poised firmly on the edge And wondering why there was no hope. But no one told me Ever ...”

“What a fucking tapestry woven by mad and sensitive egos; sometimes, the flatulence of words blows the intention out the window, but it is just a few steps backwards. I get so near to getting into detail about people and things, then like a pinball machine, my thoughts bang off sideways to some other peg and hang there for a nanosecond only to be tossed on somewhere else. Where is that still, quiet place of examination?”