poetry critical

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Random Poem:

Epiphany at the Symposium
aeturnus

swollen livers
 1
displaying the right-wing fantasy,
 2
and yellow-ish, dried parcels
 3
full of my latex fantasies.
 4
nude photos of fruit,
 5
bearing their whim for the cause,
 6
and bright-eyed children eating
 7
from the rain puddles,
 8
sipping the grains of gravel
 9
through their tilted straws.
 10
 
 
knowledge, sweetness. refrain,
 11
let the liquid pour down
 12
wash away the blood, guilt
 13
and sin from your body.
 14
feel the g-force build and release,
 15
letting the tense tell you
 16
just when to drop off,
 17
to pull the rip cords and fly.
 18
oh! to fly, and sail, and breathe;
 19
i could only dream.
 20
 
 
revel, bask, glorify me-
 21
swell me up so tight and restart,
 22
flashes your eyes and memory,
 23
drain me. things are better
 24
once you condition them
 25
and set them to your pace anyway.
 26
from aviena to zeta-
 27
you can fill in the nuances later,
 28
while choirs don't wait,
 29
and their train will set sail,
 30
like all things break down-
 31
crash me and reboot.
 32

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