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FRAGMENTS 41

 

Enervating ventilation with pushy accent.

Underdog-sheen conditions.

"Register of 'undesirables' hatched.”

Not easy-going, or benevolent.

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FRAGMENTS 42

 

Dismantled possessions, orbitless.

Rewind knob.

"Washington precluded..."

Tenable germane shredding.

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FRAGMENTS 43

 

Hoodwinked by escutcheon.

Perforations margin sprocket.

"Lethal diseases, bioweapons."

Vertex of a flame.

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FRAGMENTS 44

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Action Man hurtled at wall.

Resistance spanning guide rails.

"Cockiness of no-platforming."

Lay-a-trap rhythms, melodic evisceration.

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Christopher Barnes © 2022

DEAREST (41)

 

...in Elysium

you'll stride barefoot.

 

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We are stardust

yet should be corpus.

 

 

 

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DEAREST (42)

 

...chuckling

enlivens the fluttering heart.

 

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This grubby world

is not a mirage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEAREST (43)

 

Papa tickles spectres...

Farewell.

 

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Juxtapositions, second glances,

capture axioms.

 

 

 

 

 

DEAREST (44)

 

...responses unlock,

murky tutoring.

 

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New insight

hacks chimerical jungles.

 

 

 

 

 

Christopher Barnes © 2024

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