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Mysterium Tremendum

Bess was my gussy friend

She always took care.

From the friction

Or could. a bell is something different.

Altogether. Such costly errors

Of the mind. Eso and exoterror

Skeletons. The pink body

Eating its shell.

She had pleaded not to pick

Up with the underneath

Legs and all scrabbling.

But the fluorescent tests

Allowed for prepreception.

Every ghost limb has a war story.

But not every war story has a limb.

Fifteen thousand candles are

Little kittens. It's an exed out eye

Thing for this one.

Or in the rubble, an Oboe

Tuned by the wind.

Half of him is impounded

In the tree folk

Gemeinschaft

Half of him is a city.

If you call him in the forest

You might get the gut side

Vertiginous and quiver,

Covered in vines and hair

To camouflage

What's on the inside that counts?

What fixed and determinate story

Hails from the forest these

Fisted halls?

Most of him is hanging in the tree you

See blinking in the sunlight, such a drip.

The rainwaiter tickles the private.

Got to get it together.

From formal folk

Comes the shining.

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