AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty ... - Cornell University

5. HEMISPHERECTOMY
One grain got swelled, abrupt in the grass-shackles of time.
It is no mystery how one lives on without half of a redundancy machine.
It was plucked and planted elsewhere, a heap or fancy midden by the
highway.
When days are twice as overwrought, nights more needful but boring.
All root it spooled and explored like it always did, tapping resources.
And each wild leap a leap into static.
Marshalled worms, slim scutterers and the expelled, the exudate congeries.
A cap of northern wools may be pulled down as far as the cream or coal
Adam’s apple.
This forgotten ravager made its fortune quickly and with minimal conceit.
A cap is a cape is a caper is escape.
It vaulted the doldrums and posed with rare cultivars against spectacular
riotous scenes.
So gather your vendors while ye may.
Ultimately it discovered its prongs and plugged them into the planet’s single
socket.
A swift hire lauds, will inspire the troops.
Cthonic current was too much, anticipatably, and oversparking occurred with
heats.
Boil roil toil and bubble, clubhouse char and courthouse rubble.
Saline filled the upper half like an aria or errant fugue.
And glacial, the pate slipped by in darkness with its gaudy tombs.
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