I.
God damn this scientific cast of mind.
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Bright tenor sacked, how I can rationalize
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a slight smoke, trickling above stir and
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whirring of sound, voice gadget distraction,
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of nature’s sense, for mimicry, aberration to be
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believed, by intelligence, preceding sight,
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lucid castoff, case-file under classified
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light, center isle laundered, watching,
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space-black night, soaring sweet, blue floral
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ferryboat: projection taken as gaseous figurine,
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choice exempt: sketch-job of inverse shabbes
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wave, 1933 broadcast at which one’s beloved
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cinema, Loew’s doll-king: Fire escape theater:
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slippery gutter step, cement dements, so I hide.
II.
So you want it out there? Bürgerbräukeller,
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East Canal, the Prague Maharal? Metal sky-
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scraper’s needle, recorded, scrubbed timeless,
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1951, Howlin’ Wolf single. Sisterly gorgon daze
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along Division, the celluloid, auto-da-fé ray.
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Tzitzit stains, fingers drawn, wet time-shakin’
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breasts of brown, and of gold. Teaming extras
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realigned like this: Neo-epoch angles, Fritz L.’s
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writhing surround, rent limp, seized up, dead
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atop secluded, Paulista beach, collecting call,
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clasping great white’s rubber, shallow break-
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fast corn-syrupy beast, kyphotic midrash speaks
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in obliques; rest-stop’s riddled, & ritual binding.
III.
I want it all brought back, a penitent’s home:
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from the top of 33rd, and 5th, with aid, from
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Willis H. O’Brien; studying, humpbacked,
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praying upon the sacrifice of Isaac, linking
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Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel with Adolph
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H.’s consolidation of POWER, sitting on top
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parasitic blots by the Old Jewish Quarter of
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New Amsterdam, and even Josef M., expiring
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death angel, meeting himself at last, in Bertioga,
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in Brasil, dispensing monstrous jaws from Beer
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Hall, to Reichstag, to America’s inferno of great
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fire, in each cell, on every carceral block, and
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I, of Florida, as my right, medicated mind, sat
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boasting an allusive, triple tapestry of monsters.