Anomaly
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Anomaly (edit 3)

--for teachers

We are bringing the new tests online:
Beside our launching pad, with millions of sticky notes,
someone is always embarrassed working under a school bus.
Welding through a mask.  It's dangerous to breathe
every idea near a fuse.  A shower of standards

rockets from Germany to London.

Born under hydrogen bagpipes and liquid sparks
Working right up to the bell, up to when the greenbacks fail.
There once were doctors on the Aegean
Who swam where the poets swam.
When they invented trains, no one sat in the back,

not even a band of robbers. The new standard will add
extra charts for every experiment and testing stra--
Excuse the interruption, 
project V2 has just called shotgun.

You get the camera.  Take attendance.
Take us out.

Pour out the lead, kick on the pump.
And if the weeds tumble out, imagine rain pouring down.
Your data wasn't political enough, and we
have more experiments.  Don't throw up.

Don't draw.  Don't hate the laws
which hate oxy acetylene, the laws which monitor
lead, defy the law of gravity, we don't understand
the laws which hate us, chalk, faces, hands.
Fifty miles up.

Did you get the email?  Make the copies.  Walk.
earn, pay, throw
the kitchen sink and every spotted
embarrassing nocturnal music note.  Microscopes
pile up to test the roof.  You got the V2, me too, double down.
that's the speed of money.  No 2.  That's the sound, 
time to go.
Make it rain, don't talk.

A.  In chairs.  In charity.  In units
B.  Inches squared.  Ink.
C.  Errors.  incarcerated.  in charge.  In chiba.
D.  In character.  Incredible.  Intensive care.

You can't hear it coming.
a star zig-zagging from the sky
we were reading faster
than the speed of sound, and we were
deafened by the welders, even headphones caught fire.  We
learned everything while finding people
under books
on the floor.



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Anomaly (original)

Beside the school,
someone is always working under the bus.
Welding through a mask.  It's dangerous to breathe
every idea near a fuse.  A shower of standards.

Born under bagpipes and wet sparks
Working right up to the bell, up to when the dollars fail.
There once were doctors on the Aegean
Who swam where the poets swam.
No one sat in the back, not even the band.
The new standard will add extra vinegar for every experiment.
Excuse the interruption, 
project V2 will be given the best seat on the bus.

You get the camera.  Take the shot.
Take us out.

Get the lead out.
And if the weeds tumble out, imagine rain pouring down.
The grapes were far too sour, and we
have more experiments.  Don't throw up.

Don't draw.  Don't hate the laws
which hate oxy acetylene, the laws which monitor
lead, defy the law of gravity, we don't understand
the laws which hate us, chalk, faces, hands.
Fifty miles up.

Did you get the email.  Make the copies.  Walk.
earn, pay, throw
the kitchen sink and every spotted
embarrassing nocturnal music note.
Test the roof with V2, me too, double down.
that's the speed of money.  No 2.  That's the sound, 
time to go.
Push the green, don't talk.

In chairs.  In charity.  In units
Inches squared.  Ink.
Errors.  incarcerated.  in charge.  In chiba.
In character.  Incredible.  Intensive care.

You can't hear it coming.
a star zig-zagging from the sky
we were reading faster
than the speed of sound, and we were
deafened by the welders, even tickets caught fire.  We
learned everything while finding people
under books
on the floor.
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Anomaly - by underthewronghat - 05-10-2016, 12:54 PM
RE: Anomaly - by Achebe - 05-13-2016, 07:21 AM
RE: Anomaly - by underthewronghat - 05-13-2016, 11:30 PM
RE: Anomaly - by ChristopherSea - 05-13-2016, 11:57 PM
RE: Anomaly - by underthewronghat - 05-14-2016, 12:13 AM
RE: Anomaly - by ChristopherSea - 05-14-2016, 12:18 AM
RE: Anomaly - by underthewronghat - 05-14-2016, 12:31 AM
RE: Anomaly - by ChristopherSea - 05-14-2016, 12:46 AM



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