SYMPATHIES OF WAR
words magically happily dance between curtains of stop
in the
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in the picture
her maternal instincts are described
before she was betrayed
in the early years of the long war
the walls are splashed with her blood
but her youngest must have her birthday party
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ten candles
one white one black one gray one brown
one red one green one yellow one purple
one blue one
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an anonymous letter arrived in the mail
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in part madame regret inform sympathies of war
lived sword appeal pending testimony major
edward her brother second masonry salvage
active service I know satisfaction many
desirable neutral in the event
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I devote memory memory Carmen children
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race laugh
clowns' chalk
deeper straight
right angles force never
downhill animal circle listened finger held moved father
decoration after if I forget she
punished during swims demanded
in the fog two voices Carmen lucky
feel see smell cannot
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get along built sun
may I be reset to zero after all
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there is a fortune in the lives of men
which belong to us
return it O P unto us
forever now
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black blue green yellow felt pens
sustain our verticals and our horizontals
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anti-life suspended in the gray above our eyes
its cords are spiritlessly tugged by you O P
let go
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when we're upside down turn us rightside up
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must greed object
himself objectionable
gall bladder open closes
closed opens
not room fruits, bricks, pots, lids
open in the middle of words
conceal his visions explicit implicit
anonymous opinion
automatic
stopped the water with wool
some things are clearly stated
intimidated unknown
neighbour without terms
without payment before thirty days
as witness shepherd pasture sheep
put it down
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close the light
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muffle the bell on the animal's neck
that it should not ring
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we take turns
the the burning escape passion
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the the cross miles up trained weather
ever have bronze ever have rose attack frost
looked at
once blind teeth glint raw in the foot every between
the cave is in the mountain
the mountain is in the sickness
the sickness is in the heart
the heart is in the forest
the forest is in the cave I dream of
following the night
in the
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in the last picture she was beginning to smile
her lips were red like fire in the Time-Life picture
she was beginning to smile her eyes were blue
like a clear skin in the Time-Life picture
she was beginning right foot first
generate sad flowing from her eyes
right hand covers left
but her youngest read braille while we watched her
ward off the angel Death
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a child locked in a room