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Ondaatje: The Piano Player

all these notes and keys hit them right and hard notes and keys that sing music that's unending milks poured on brown skin and I love him for it that image, that sense of completeness and injustice radiator won't turn off miles and miles of highway, yellow and white lines run though visions like hazy streamers sweating, no money, must sleep skin's sticky and flaccid, bed's dented others have lied here, hitting keys hard and right to make them sing there's that field that's like cold milk poured over my skin gray rocks of Canada meeting rolling acres of the world's daisies and tufts of dandelion heads, her curves cool and a smirk that rolls and rolls horizons licked by rich creamy evening skies motions and notes that will never die here's the heat, droplets that parade through hairy legs and you've fallen asleep and the heat and this hate this distant loneliness and this ridiculous field and your body, all these keys and notes and not a song to sing a

Naked by the Lake

Watchful eye of a whale 'Yes, very much like a whale' distorted reflections, the foolishness of appearance. My body is a wave becoming the sky 18 feet tall, giant narrow head genitalia indistinguishable "This is our church," she said, "without the alter or the people and their prayers" Something seen is consumed. It observes until its dried up and dead Walking in the eye of the earth mud is stirred, slimy stones, a stie Water's judgment will only kill you if you breath its mercy, a stupid sin a babies baptism is for the urine and shit not her soul Blessed be this hot water tank, may it sprinkle the healing grace of Christ our savior while masturbating in the shower "Seminary's not for you perhaps" Sitka Spruce eyelashes only sway, no blinking Early morning swim through vitreous humor high in beta-carotene A vision that's 40 feet deep and a mile wide no prescription necessary Living life, constantly scrutinized by a judgment that's c

21st Century Beatitudes

Blessed are the rich in pocket for theirs is the kingdom of wealth Blessed are the scornful for they shall be rewarded Blessed are the war mongers, for they shall plunder and inherit the earth Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for resources for they shall be satisfied politicians Blessed are the wrathful for they shall obtain the goods of others Blessed are the weak of heart and mind for they shall walk the corridors of power Blessed are the unmanned drones for they shall kill the Children of Pakistan Blessed are they who persecute others for theirs is the kingdom of heaven