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Date Posted: 13:02:40 02/23/00 Wed
Author: Mors
Subject: Re: Poem #3
In reply to: Jonathan Hirsch 's message, "Poem #3" on 19:55:12 02/13/00 Sun

Johnathan...For some reason, this poem brought up images of Road Warrior at sea. I like the haunting language and the implication of a greater depth.
Thanks for the read.
Mors

> 3
>
> A seamen once asked
> If I would murder my kind,
> When woke to death;
> Sulking soaking in bruised
> bottom.
>
> His gooey mustard eyes recede,
> Seeds tumble in the ebb;
> Cha-cha'd in the night;
> To everlasting island life.
>
> There lingers still,
> Deft page-flipping.
> Half pronounced;
> Grotesque ecstatic
> Lips,
> That close
> As seas on flooded decks.
>
> Post-human remains arise;
> Beached as a bar,
> Riveting the final tortoise
> stretch,
> Of an inherently apocalyptic
> world.
>
> The vessel headed to land.
>
> 2/12/00

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