Democrat, Illinois - The ElectroLounge

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xxxviii. Demise: A Wish
Better than deathless kingdoms of men,
bury me in the wordless glare,
burn me & my every raucous page,
puff my ash to woods & stars;
Let me out of man-dreamed eternals,
little faith in men unbound by mortality,
all it gods & heavens will still garb in
commandments & roar with primal bloodlust;
Burn me in the glare, let specks
of my being feed tree or star or hungry
trout, so much the better, not to die
another ragged man buried in undone vows;
Bury me, burn me, the desert I scatter
will remember, the sea sweet a touch
to what I was, stars & woods will shine
on because once I shone; and, if not,
there’s a pretty idea to a short, hard being
& a long, windblown forgetting.
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