in rem
             

            Obeying I woke eight times last night
            economical in my abode.
            This narrowness of sound,
            an osteopath put to death in the empty
            scheme, to make manifest, first to do
            a great thing, to pluck, destroy love.

            The black, dark, murky foliage, again
            land, in sorry plight, fall down suspected
            enclitic in some way.  How?  Somehow
            bright, radiant, clear, enfeebled scheme
            to gain the potter’s clay.  Each earthen vessel
            to speak homologous, admit flattery,
            child, boy, girl, slave, the way going
            out I built a road, five shields deep,
            lepidopterous faith.  Treats everything
            tunic-free. And what is secret indicates
            a lie or wound, where there was no
            wish to know, fresh like a novel.
            As fruit through one wing of double gates,
            the entrance to a mountain pass, or furnace maimed,
            the delay of future fogs, dog-stars
            in the inner room, spurious in cunning.  Truly
            naked script, in unarmed manner of religious
            awe.  Bring forth generations to fall filtered
            through excuse.  Close the din of death to any noise.
            I found through temple statue fierceness, gave hatred
            chemical to chemical.  Cherish adder.  Bed the bedding.

            This is that place of stone surely.
            Mark you I built a road after a long time
            to procure advantage.  Soften our pace through
            head of hair, free to make, do, produce,
            achieve, transact.  A round building
            with a conical roof.  Offscourings.  The dirty water
            after a bath.  Anger after every dinner.  Atone to be
            an atoner.  Would before an empty god, bereft.
             

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