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oppositional poetry, prose, polemic
Christopher Barnes
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