_______________________________________________________________________________ \\ / / =====> VacHaus provisionals <===== / / a TNtD (Try Not to Die) drop \\ A Poetry tDrop by Wetdryvac _______________________________________________________________________________ Dear Heart January 9, 2006 ah, it ��s so nice of you to call, dear heart but the little me you knew of old I ��ve salted him away some briny place in fallow deeps where blood is low and slow the waves nurturing like casks, a dram of the old son thirty years on, vintage on the phone upon the fell instead, hang up thy word running, leaping, indistinguishable from peat trickle in the bael-four, cardinal at Halnen ��s grave this new things awaits, cracking chocolates beside the intercom technological for ��eralong, gone bittersweet learning Lindt that blackest rose yellowing, degrading wrappers like harbor mist scattered round the phone so nice of you to call, my hart but the warble of the horn is sweeter better blowed the flutter of my wrest cultured sparrow upon my wrist singing something sacramental little concordance thus writ, quicksand compliant over-running assonance neither pure nor broken tumbling salt cure be-done while the breath of I ��an I a hunting never trust the voice on the other end, beloved and be loved, but long forget �� I have shaded colder masters written fury upon their backs in flame �� stormed their deepest cellars where one might worded convey, the wire frail stalls passes utterance both pithed and hollow somewhere the little me holds still, trembles as the echo and I an �� I just bide my time, running, oh, and running dam ��s brink and Caesar ��s cross, old barrow on the iron road damns mortal loss perhaps, but I �� and I �� returning ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: With thanks to the good folks at Hackers.Town for answering the very n00best of questions, with the following people politely [REDACTED]. 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