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<strong>Flower</strong> <strong>Head</strong> (Noon)<br />
On a cathode ray tube TV<br />
Pop star sings with gravel-lined throat<br />
Ad hoc lyrics stab and then<br />
Bleeds the listener<br />
Who awakens without painful memories<br />
And yet recollecting the flesh<br />
Of a warm, big fish<br />
*<br />
We feel sorrow regarding prior conflicts<br />
Slick as whetstone<br />
Deaf to afterbirth of faux- gourmet-<br />
Pork-as-propaganda<br />
*<br />
The alchemist laughs<br />
Then collapses, castrating himself in rainfall<br />
Waiting for help while dreading night’s arrival<br />
And the promised alleviation<br />
Of the mysterious design of his own psyche<br />
Relinquishing feathers<br />
Of starlings in flames of gold and orange<br />
And in this oasis in a glade<br />
We listen, quiet, still<br />
The fiery birds fleeting, flying<br />
To jungle drums<br />
Alerting those waiting<br />
In war paint
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