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I would have you do this

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Here.
this is your prayer
your mantra, your news.
I leave it as I found it, papering in the streets.
as godless a truth as you will know
it’s still a ghost of a dream
smaller than theories of infinite resolution.  
you will believe it because it has no industry
no acolytes or storefronts.
it’s not an embezzlement of fascination
or confabulation of missing histories.
you will not doubt its truth because your design is hollow
    the space inside your car
    the adventitious spine that vials through the weeds
    the ice of march on adam’s needle
    the ants, crickets, beetles under sandstone
    waiting in a music box for the catalysts to wake
    and split them out into the breen.
you will speak of your awareness
without knowing what inhabits it
    like a colour that doesn't hum
    or passing through a future forest
    of apparitions in bald park meadows
    agitating the whims of moths
    yet to flee the undergrowth
    and shards of glass, long since buried      
    in layers of gentle cataclysms.
you will sing, continuously, in sonorants
through your childrens’ childrens’ tongues
these thoughts unburdened by your words
these psalms without a prophet.
late winter #suburban poetry
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JWA2277's avatar
I think it's English, I read, understand...... and yet, not!
It sounds clever at first, then I trip on a non sequiter, and the blocks of reason fall down. Confusion, not wisdom, is what I aquire.