Relay-Version: B 2.11 6/12/87; site scolex Path: timr From: timr@armory.COM (Bad Hurts Value) Newsgroups: sco.poetry Subject: traditional birthday poem Summary: (first draft) Keywords: both sides of the edgeless coin Message-ID: <15369@scorn.sco.COM> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 00:38:05 GMT Sender: news@sco.COM Reply-To: timmer (man savant to the birthday king) Followup-To: alt.birthright.holiday,rec.beaux.arts Distribution: sco Organization: Most Art's Requiem Lines: 65 Author: j.t. rhyston Copyright: 1991 Covert Publishing I. eons of courtship marks the pate attraction weak the dust of time 'fore nucleons concede to mate 'fore music of the spheres can chime only in a violent death a powerful ejaculation forges the beginnings breath of the next new generation the wooing starts anew what the earth thrusts up and down the ages gnaw and spit and mold a fluvial somnolence brown the silt from powdered peaks of old cross forgotten continents millenia come and come and gone the Lethean currents lay the clay where no fat weed rots easy long the digging starts thereto whose hand the vulgate matter shapes no carnal totem knows or takes whose breath upon the subject makes the only signature that's known a billion years upon the shelf the tree of life must be refreshed from time to time with the hot blood of mutant natures misfeasance the mouein' arts debut II. systalic zeitgeist cruciform volute in the wombwarm kiln heavy syrup packed and formed dispeptic analgesic film ephemera the golem comes unctious with the gypsy'd glaze rampant billows blazoned of vertiginous halting stripmined gaze in each turn the curling crown counting off the hirsute years tongue held edgewise on the down razor rusting hoary ears spring winds up, daze grows longer white-eyed searching for a reason in nebulae and in liturgies from the zenith to horizon
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