Clock's Dog: |
How Stupid do you feel |
Mrs Tungsten Loop: |
King Ilona, your rapport / portable |
King Ilona: |
Lemon residue, shan't I be Residue at one eight oh |
Clock's Dog: |
It must age, select ramparts don't Not Amity, deflect method, refine Bedded here / a nation closer |
King Ilona: |
Ravenna is all hair. |
Mrs Tungsten Loop: |
Amen. |
Clock's Dog: |
The region before the ventral part of Calum I cannot describe. Sarah is saying No. Extends on a leaf southward to the tongue of Ross. |
Mrs Tungsten Loop: |
That this, in historical time a long shot. |
King Ilona: |
How little is, and how much like |
Mrs Tungsten Loop: |
The face facing the back of your face |
Clock's Dog: |
Don't ever let me exist, will you? |
King Ilona: |
This is the time of incubation. |
Mrs Tungsten Loop: |
How many years to hatch our imbecile? |
King Ilona: |
The lamps are on, we are in wool, the cameras roll. |
Mrs Tungsten Loop: |
This is an event, somewhere. |
Clock's Dog: |
But too many boiled in the shell and liable to eat its parent. |
First published in First Offense No.11, Winter 1997.
Reprinted in FOIL: defining poetry 1985-2000, etruscan books 2000.
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