Mishmash, immortal

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Mishmash, immortal

I.

Mashed in reverse, this
Grapevine of the ordinary
Plinks softly the tab on
An aluminum soda can.

Life is awaiting,
Through shimmering grunge,
Its recognition by
Our snowy pine cerebrum.

Homeless gourmet—
—sharp botija scraps
Mangy trebuchets or canines—
—eat at dimestore armageddon raves.

    Unruly, bequeathed, educationless, vague,
    Sparse wisdom:
                              dark streams of ink
                                          flowing into the sewer
                                                      or upwards into
                                        somone's hearth arisen.

                                 Abandoned, eternal swiftness petrified,
                                 Into this world of frozen light
                                 My words ferment in the sinking shade
                                 Of fright transmuted in
                                 An oaken cask into such a
                                 Dubious brew as this.

II.

                                 Foe, elixir,
                                 Old remedy obstructed,
                                 (Patches to make it new)
                                 Heart of bandages & lost time
                                 That bleeds forgotten songs
                                 Into a canyon—
                                                                       —over a lake.
                                 Creeps upon, now hill, now mount;
                                 Rockets round atomic to inner space.

What is polite society
but the violent displacement
of dreamers
from their dream?

Conduits of light in leisure,
A comfortable lineage through utopic trials.

                             Genetic fissure in
                                 the skies of this
                                      world of scintillating
                                           diamond overtaking agony.

Suddenly, there is a rapturous tunnel
Through which the world's eggshell
Turns transparent & one beholds
Adhesion of the lands of dross
To their timeless source.

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