Monday, September 29, 2008

10. AND ALL THIS RANDOM CATERWAULING

AND ALL THIS RANDOM CATERWAULING:
Firewall eponymous words
Gregory Peck University
don't forget anything and write it all down
catastrophic ministrations and the
awesome wail of Hadrian Buell:
'man I'm too tired to breed' -
a string of one-liners like a streamlined airliner
and the Titanic on the 14th of June
I SWEAR I saw it listing in the harbor -
warmify the heart dead Lincoln
come above where the air is clear
find the hundreds of prisoners where they sit down below -
engine room steaming rank air hot
every hand clutching parts of steel -
the old grub-wood is cracked and dark
yet it functions still as the tiller and lead :
those who say 'all is well and well is more than enough'
have really no idea of what they say -
it bespeaks smoke and bad language
all things the jail overflows with
THEREFORE:
let us find the killer who still lives
and let us then flay him alive
lay him low and labor at forming his death.

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