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For the Ghost of Hart Crane

Again, the rustling of a piece of toilet-paper summons you back, bringing you pacing & fidgeting down the long cell-blocks of cubicles, trying the doors or pretending to be looking for a nickel until suddenly, your few seconds up, the automatic flushing system unleashes, discharging you back into your drowning.

Hart, stay back there & forget me-- forget this system their pumping refills, this stillness already being baited with fresh rustlings.

Interregnum

A queen's brief flaming left those ruined palace walls these peacocks strutting them at dusk One calls hideous with what its thousand eyes that cry in coming night behold.

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Queer dawn whose birdsong is this "tink tink" of rocket-metal cooling on some planet remote as this broken radiator coming back on.

The Question

Strange hand that appears held out towards me asking-

"Am I changed so by coming from under this toilet partition wall?"

* * *

No one here but me and these gently bleating crickets

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