Artifice V

[rowens]

Epitaph

Smugness is worse
with a closed mouth.
Eyes dryly glistening,
poised as a mob.
Beauty

is beautiful
whether or not ugly exists;
intensified by the sacrifice,
ugliness is sacred,
beauty holiness.

Love and sing
in Mocking Ways.
And in Mockery
there's love.

A rooster ate the pious
piper's goat; twirled
somersaults on Alcatraz.
To have done with our judgments.



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Beware Any Word that Starts With Re


Animals come
to reclaim sound.
Mix truth with 
anxiety, throw
out the towel.

Burning
the sun in
heaven,
incinerating
the word;

how high
a man can 
jump, being 
low by his
own standards.

OfficeMax has a sale
on old typewriter
ribbons.
This is 2009.