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Scent

  The sky is sun baked and hued golden, streamers dart from behind cotton clouds. And now on the ground are two strong magnets *pulse* an attraction to metal but push away when they get too close. And again there is red flame there what does it mean? It’s a secret, a secret scent, voodoo, and cinnamon. You indeed are cardamom, my favorite flavor stirred into my tea, bittersweet. What shall it be? It shall be, please. At night I have a lack of dreams, only sights and smells. Everything else eludes me; escapes to another place. Honeysuckle, baby powder, no. East. Great mystery, the greater mystery, the den of the ladies: gold, discreet new language: code, informed. New places to be, glance around, glance around, smell it, the scents, the artificial scents. Deepen me; stretched, dainty.    
— Conect11, Aug 17, 2007

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Quillsvein1

18 years 9 months ago

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me of charles baudelaire more than any beat poet; here you have a singular, extremely focused attention on sensation and vision powerful as a sniper's crosshair. a pleasurable, sensual, mysterious read--great job!