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HEELS Heels are carousing carousels, Metal animals snorting, Moving as the bellows of an accordion, Childhood-believed Christmas carols, Geometic forms On imaginary embassy floors That danced in bygone movies, The movies That unemancipated to the illusion Persian carpets Were from Persia. Most precious quasi-sacred dazzling lotteries Radiant crisscrossed gold braceleted ankles Joseph's multicolored coat. Joseph's multicolored coat. The Ruby Hummingbird's throat The Ruby Hummingbird's throat THE CONTINUITY The continuity is the coup d'tat, confessions, Musical, clavichordal, claret-colored, minus A correspondence, but coherent thus independent Of any event, reverie, or foot bridge, discoveries Without documentation from life experience, But stylography On Styx, The authentic voice, the monk on a raw wood High stool, copying calligraphically A language he cannot read, the brain, The monastery and monster, an obituary notice And a birth cry, the sandstorm without sand, A ivory skull topped with a wig. A deep knowledge of mask and costumes, poses, Jests, jubilation mistaken for people Supplies the fiction for the confession, Joss sticks burned in joss houses On journal pages, Our sight warped, distorted by tradition, popular Opinion, Puts us out of sight of what can be seen, So we see As blind puppets Paupers, purposes, parrots, Baseball pitchers. EASE Ease was responsible for the wisdom, But the ease was not ease but obedience To the instructors, although the instructors Were only quasi-conscious of the content Conveyed by their instructions. When the instructors were confronted, Being accused that the instructors did not understand What they instructed, the instructors Would make was what termed �an improvised Speech,� although the prepared, printed Speech had been e mailed to them Decades ago. The author of the improvised Speech was unknown. Some thought He was a famous golfer, or rock singer, Or an absentee owner of a shopping mall. Once the man who was said that ease Was responsible for his wisdom, had sensed the harm to humanity That his wisdom had caused. started To repudiate his wisdom, but He could clarify what his wisdom was. It was vague, influential, but not Comprehended, therefore he did not Know what to repudiate. Instead He went to a false Venice in Las Vegas. Most of his thirty volumes were not Written by him, but by his blonde Secretary and mistress. She wrote Most of the work while drugged, And never know what she was writing. In all newspaper interview she denied She wrote the work. She claimed That his wife wrote the works. The works Was widely read and very influential. The influence was said to have spread Mediocrity and criticized the superior so severely That the superior became taboo. The works are now standard texts In our school system and required reading. |
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duane locke Doctor of Philosophy, English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years and is widely published, both online and in print. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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