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                                 A Poetry tDrop

                                  by Wetdryvac
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Breath Rife

the interrogation is a simple thing, pain at a remove, annoyance, disassembly, reset
somewhere, the migraine is looking for the precise order of operations necessary to reawaken
Kelpie at the local frog pond, and the collapsing ecosystem has reduced
threshold necessary for such tasks

fewer frogs, and the cats that hunt the banks slide their faces aside like curtains
to check the water, to listen for huffing
the bubbles, the come-what-will of methane and sediment

in which sequence must frogs die, then, and when their skins slide,
in which order are the patterns laid
must each utterance and symbol be placed so
will any position do

and the fallows swell aside, thin face and raked tides rising
24 hands of must and damp leather draped loose over bone
it's the star in its eye that pauses the question, the faintest blue

and, "Ah, it's you, we're here again."

you'd expect questions to be torture - it's the communally accepted decision
that one is asked, and hurt, and replaced when done - and in the dream there's the dream of dream,
the recycle of testing for tolerance
leaning against that old leather frame, teeth like hands in the shoulder, 

and, "Have we begun?"

later, it's dragging the pond, a submerged but comfortable ride,
filtering for where the bodies reside,
one each for memory: Tasmanian tiger, the giant fossa, and the whisper of Stellar's sea cows
still sweet and quiet in the kelp, feeding urchins likewise almost silent
pain at a remove

24 hands deep, and just a breathless more, little flickers down below,

and, "Ah, it's you, we're here again."

24 hands and home.
cool hair so slick it's solid.
the company to keep.



there's a conversation with Dirk Gently's new spawned god,
dicky ticker not yet sweeping, one hand to the minute on May 11, 2001
where, with four months left to go, extinction hasn't written this particular pattern yet
just whetting the stone, cropping a bit of civil liberty,
waiting breathless for Together We Stand
hand painted signs and [redacted, big black letters]
fries, 24 hands high.

[] so thick it's solid.

and that conversation goes like this: "Ah, it's you, we're []"



background is found noises and the twist of code that makes 'scape of painting,
one stroke at a time gone carefully to rhythm and drone,
simulations of drowning and sleep deprivation, 
pins of the urchins slipping in

scraping history away with the edge of a nickel, 

and "Ah, it's you, we're here again."

there is no news but reel
loose over bone
sinking in 


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