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And walking down the line, And walking down the line, Blood hot to fuel the limbs a-crying, Struck not for rhythm, only rhyme, Best for sighing And dying in retreat. And in my chest of pine, A map rolled up so thin, Drawn wit with all the twists of time, Stray shores lit up by ocean-shine, Uniquely won, But smudged with soot. Clouds from the soil – a sign! This little mist of mine, Will yearn to chuck its static tine Among the tatters and the lint That settled in my chest of pine, a boneyard relic dank and bare which homely cries A ravaged syncopation twice. And veering from the line, And steering from my way, A day or two to stay away From bays of beasts and feasts of lice and many a morsel, lost to vermin that squirm and grow and bite my leg bleeds green; Known to knaves that waved grave flails and scattered **** that ****** its own to Hell, where overdue a longish spell sent Falling from place to grace that face that drew a thousand beads of albatross tears, of murky reeds and cheating, stinking, reeking, absolute, terrible, miserable, mistakes Fall in line! And burps another Rhine, Boiled quaint in bogs of brine, That pickles crisp the limp old rind Of cogs and bands my chests of pine, Buckskin drying all the time, ******* coke, doing lines, tonguing chic, pearly swine, concede a side I’ll never find.
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Feb 8, 2014
Feb 8, 2014 at 10:44 AM UTC
Fall in Line
And walking down the line, And walking down the line, Blood hot to fuel the limbs a-crying, Struck not for rhythm, only rhyme, Best for sighing And dying in retreat. And in my chest of pine, A map rolled up so thin, Drawn wit with all the twists of time, Stray shores lit up by ocean-shine, Uniquely won, But smudged with soot. Clouds from the soil – a sign! This little mist of mine, Will yearn to chuck its static tine Among the tatters and the lint That settled in my chest of pine, a boneyard relic dank and bare which homely cries A ravaged syncopation twice. And veering from the line, And steering from my way, A day or two to stay away From bays of beasts and feasts of lice and many a morsel, lost to vermin that squirm and grow and bite my leg bleeds green; Known to knaves that waved grave flails and scattered **** that ****** its own to Hell, where overdue a longish spell sent Falling from place to grace that face that drew a thousand beads of albatross tears, of murky reeds and cheating, stinking, reeking, absolute, terrible, miserable, mistakes Fall in line! And burps another Rhine, Boiled quaint in bogs of brine, That pickles crisp the limp old rind Of cogs and bands my chests of pine, Buckskin drying all the time, ******* coke, doing lines, tonguing chic, pearly swine, concede a side I’ll never find.
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Feb 8, 2014
Feb 8, 2014 at 10:44 AM UTC
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