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languish in dandylion courage
the filter white line

dust sifting in sublte eavetrough

tilt the neck
and the liquid trickle
like magic

hold out your glass
the palsy nerve ragged
sitting in the chair
dark as a burnt roast

thunder collapses
and voices clap
off building serenity

the black skinny dog
trots past
head down
whinning

the storm close
like a freind
breathing
in dream twitch spasms

this silver chain
dangling like a thread of love
each link a heartbeat
each heartbeat a song

and the darkness crumbles
and you say okay
with wet lips
red with fortified bullshit
tainted with its nothingness

you laugh and the television
is a blur of static wandering

a plate of spaghetti is a host
of flies

and the split flash
speaks
in its hunger