Monday, January 09, 2006

Garbagemen discuss poetry at the ballet

Erect I stand
between an angel
guarding light
and a demon
safekeeping a flame.

Light and flame, both,
illuminate
according to the decoder.

Don't needle words
from verses,
beware of the
lesser harm that
stems
from guns and knives.

Words depict mirages
of richness and poorness,
of life and death,
but more of
gray
than black and white,
and from this confusion
the wound bleeds slowly
and the enduring pain
prolongs.

A good stab or
a good shot
does not mince
with ambiguities
and there is no further
discussion.

A period is a
.

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