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Ode for Reality

Man moves in his circle and is silent, graces his days
With bunting, buries his love in a landslide
Of sleeping, awakes to put prayer on the hooves of hours
And falters. Goes straight to the door of the simpering
demon.
Remote above history, worships a god whose nature is wild
Changeful and symmetrical, be it woman or father. O
Florescent meadows have been crossed on seeing chariots
Behind the white horses of hope, one wrought like a man.
Love is infinite, a saying ruled wise on the edge of the teeth
The boy beats the pillow and gives in, the gaping girl
submits
There was a torture practised while outside the loud parade
Made innocent stamping music: it was a hot nude fable
And the hero is no longer free, but harness-hampered.
Woman thrives like a flower between rocks, immortal of hair
Only exacting the tribute, the form of the faithless angel.
Tomorrow the child bats its eyes at the forgotten incident.
Traveling the mundane reaches of space, man is whole
In a twist of the mind, a fillip of fancy: the hollow brain
Fitting the created draughtsmanship, the tabulated turns
And the sweetest one is locked there: the easy bridegroom
Mothers are frantic, are hit, immolated to exile
And mighty in milk, sisters are sick shadows or roses
One dare not touch. All must be beaten from the brain but
The beauty that enters like the heroine of a bad play.
Like grapes that hang from the mysterious skies, war's death
Sucked by all! War flings creator on creator for nothing
Peace comes on waves, and men pity each other at violence
Of having peace like a grave, war like a bawling birth, and
Have I lost my chance of happiness because of this? Because
The brain freezes toward midnight, writes poetry toward
dawn |
Thinks of love as an element? The matinée-idol is helpless
Hands move on his name, rhythmically remove the ink
Man meets man. And mind embraces mind on the platform
Before the public. Even the cafeteria is public enough
And warmth of the idea next to warmth of the idea
Blossoms. The rich juice enters a limitless being

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39 lines · 7 stanzas