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1996. Straight Text from a typewriter.

Wolves egg blood turned over horses blood burned butter When the brink vanishes the furnace swallows its Mothers pastoral tongue which is heard echoing through 1000 years of Dead mouths Beauty flings its severed head cavalier in fashion over the overdressed mob who are steel nippled penised and toothed maggots of war Through my scratched window about the black scaffold made from my own insomnia No ocean can rinse the blood from that fabric
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Aug 30, 2013
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