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19 March 2013

The Whole Earth (pt 2)


The Whole Earth
is wholly property, 
you see, for him & him, 
but not for me. Don't you 
see, don't you see? 
Power doesn't answer, 
nor ask questions easy. 

Don't you see? Don't you see? 

The whole earth, the whole 
infirmary. A cold collected 
purpose for this purpose, 
incomplete scenery. Writing 
about the proverbial sand-storms 
or the sand castles, like a chaste 
woman (for the first time) in 
a fraternity. 

Please, if you'll bless me, 
don't make me again recount this 
goddam rosary, the "first time" thing, 
virginity. 

I've suffered enough for never 
having made a woman suffer 
through my indigence, 
my superiority. 

Over-ripe fruit, that! what a waste,
what an egg-shell too many. Here's 
Dom Maize, crowing about his 
virtue when he ain't got any. 

(Slippery boulders somewhere 
related two-and-two, becoming 
four like her concern was for 
free.) You really like me, you really

get me. You really don't understand 
how important it is to notice the 
scenery. (Sure kids, just keep writing 
on and on, like there's a recursive voice 
here, something made and collected 
and broken again into pieces that 
jade up the whole works, that 
make a man more brave than he probably was 
already, that make a man really want to 
roast something, whether it's his best 
friend, 

or a whole new tribe of actual people. 
Am I talking about nuts? Yes, let's fetch 
and eat them as soon as, believably,
one could, though not greedily.)

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