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Rodando a goterones solos, a gotas como dientes, a espesos goterones de mermelada y sangre, rodando a goterones cae el agua, como una espada en gotas, como un desgarrador río de vidrio, cae mordiendo, golpeando el eje de la simetría, pegando en las costuras del alma, rompiendo cosas abandonadas, empapando lo oscuro. Solamente es un soplo, más húmedo que el llanto, un líquido, un sudor, un aceite sin nombre, un movimiento agudo, haciéndose, espesándose, cae el agua, a goterones lentos, hacia su mar, hacia su seco océano, hacia su ola sin agua. Veo el verano extenso, y un estertor saliendo de un granero, bodegas, cigarras, poblaciones, estímulos, habitaciones, niñas durmiendo con las manos en el corazón, soñando con bandidos, con incendios, veo barcos, veo árboles de médula erizados como gatos rabiosos, veo sangre, puñales y medias de mujer, y pelos de hombre, veo camas, veo corredores donde grita una virgen, veo frazadas y órganos y hoteles. Veo los sueños sigilosos, admito los postreros días, y también los orígenes, y también los recuerdos, como un párpado atrozmente levantado a la fuerza estoy mirando. Y entonces hay este sonido: un ruido rojo de huesos, un pegarse de carne, y piernas amarillas como espigas juntándose. Yo escucho entre el disparo de los besos, escucho, sacudido entre respiraciones y sollozos. Estoy mirando, oyendo, con la mitad del alma en el mar y la mitad del alma en la tierra, y con las dos mitades del alma miro el mundo. Y aunque cierre los ojos y me cubra el corazón enteramente, veo caer un agua sorda, a goterones sordos. Es como un huracán de gelatina, como una catarata de espermas y medusas. Veo correr un arco iris turbio. Veo pasar sus aguas a través de los huesos.
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Agua ******
Rodando a goterones solos, a gotas como dientes, a espesos goterones de mermelada y sangre, rodando a goterones cae el agua, como una espada en gotas, como un desgarrador río de vidrio, cae mordiendo, golpeando el eje de la simetría, pegando en las costuras del alma, rompiendo cosas abandonadas, empapando lo oscuro. Solamente es un soplo, más húmedo que el llanto, un líquido, un sudor, un aceite sin nombre, un movimiento agudo, haciéndose, espesándose, cae el agua, a goterones lentos, hacia su mar, hacia su seco océano, hacia su ola sin agua. Veo el verano extenso, y un estertor saliendo de un granero, bodegas, cigarras, poblaciones, estímulos, habitaciones, niñas durmiendo con las manos en el corazón, soñando con bandidos, con incendios, veo barcos, veo árboles de médula erizados como gatos rabiosos, veo sangre, puñales y medias de mujer, y pelos de hombre, veo camas, veo corredores donde grita una virgen, veo frazadas y órganos y hoteles. Veo los sueños sigilosos, admito los postreros días, y también los orígenes, y también los recuerdos, como un párpado atrozmente levantado a la fuerza estoy mirando. Y entonces hay este sonido: un ruido rojo de huesos, un pegarse de carne, y piernas amarillas como espigas juntándose. Yo escucho entre el disparo de los besos, escucho, sacudido entre respiraciones y sollozos. Estoy mirando, oyendo, con la mitad del alma en el mar y la mitad del alma en la tierra, y con las dos mitades del alma miro el mundo. Y aunque cierre los ojos y me cubra el corazón enteramente, veo caer un agua sorda, a goterones sordos. Es como un huracán de gelatina, como una catarata de espermas y medusas. Veo correr un arco iris turbio. Veo pasar sus aguas a través de los huesos.
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A snake doesn't just throw shade We thrive in the shadows Stalking our prey, Think you've got what it takes We'll swallow you whole. I dare the kittens birdys & roadkill To make a mistake You really think your house spits poison Better than a snake? Our Partsel tongue is "forked for her pleasure" Each time we seal a letter witches get wetter other houses cringe at our fame cold blooded killers don't buy it? Just wait. Our Snakeoil salesman Will Have you beggin' for change You dare to stand against a python? You don't even know code I can't pull punches if I don't have hands, Bro. Like medusas hair dresser Expect-to petrify Better call Cobra Get insurance for your life. What's the matter Gonna cry? Because We can't. Ask science. I dare you to challenge My Reptilian brethren We're Unhinging our jaw getting fed like it's league of legends.
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Jun 30, 2017
Jun 30, 2017 at 4:42 PM UTC
Slytherin Flex
Cleopatra's Boom, as worn as earth as economy, salivating stone-head medusas turning Hercules to stone mending torn shirt-sleeves as it's posterity's sign of decay when nostalgia melts like an old bucket of icecream, not empty—but gooey sticky sugar-salt in mist of phosphene glare from a quarter of the deserts heat. You can see 64% of the picture. The other 36% is forever lost in the splattered blindspot dots of your diamond optical nerves, an eternal mismatch eternity—the parts you won't notice when your stomach aches after three consecutive cigarettes for breakfast. Cleopatra's Boom, belittled like oceans, always so alien tho it makes up 71% of our global entirety—thoughts find external storage on disc drives, in water—there's a mouth out there with a saltier kiss than the Pacific, one that caws like seagulls in exodus, announcing to the Peace Arch: “I American. I need a greater space to spread my legs.”
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Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015 at 12:23 AM UTC
Cleopatra's Boom
Plan on holding my hand I’d endure the wrath of raspy snake tongues and burning bites so you Can be a little happier today, My darling I’d take on every wild creature with yellow Eyes Poison on medusas finger Inside of my brain I’d shake and shake Shake and shake The sky a vibrating landscape of your Emptiness and no phone calls back I’d shake amongst the choreographed reeds And die Die for you My darling And if it isn’t enough I’m sorry I made a bad estimate Of what was in the jar If it wasn’t enough I’d find a way underneath the windowsill glued tight with the obstinate no’s and the moons idle hands moth cadavers and fits of frostbite blues Inside of your room where no sound bold sunflowers pink sundresses the incessant chitter chatter of chastising chumps ever finds it’s way into your abode of sadness my Darling I’d brush the rectangular flesh that sits gracefully, sadly, atop your Handsome cheek and I’d kiss you my darling until Death discovers my sheets cold and The devil flushes with purple rage
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Jun 19, 2013
Jun 19, 2013 at 8:41 PM UTC
Pan
Hubo tantas veces que casi me ahogué cuando era niño, durante lecciones de natación, fiestas de cumpleaños. Así, me da miedo aún bañarme en las piscinas, las playas, los lagos. Me da vergüenza enseñar al mundo mis escamas dolorosas, la piel que teme el calor de la arena, los rayos del sol como si fueran medusas que queman con sus besos. Es que mis heridas, debajo de cuyas cicatrices, siguen ardiendo... Quisiera que de agua yo fuera hecho. En Manila, cuando era estudiante universitaria, y tomaba el bus que por el boulevard Roxas pasaba, podía olvidar de mis problemas, del caos, solo con una mirada a la bahía. Y siempre me preguntaba, ¿podría ser que al mar le doliera su piel de agua? Me acuerdo de cuando en silencio sufría, contra ondas como orilla padecía: el abandono de un amigo a quien quería en secreto, padecía el rechazo de las obras que había escrito, padecía la soledad en esta cruel ciudad... en aquellos momentos pensé en caminar, con piedras pesadas en mis bolsillos y zapatos, despacio, despacio hacía el mar, hacía el fondo... para que por fin se cumpliese mi destino de morir en el agua y su abrazo... Pero a ella, nunca he aprendido odiarla. Y he llegado hasta mares gallegos, hasta Coruña y sus cristales, donde cada mañana le escribo canciones de amor y promesas al océano atlántico. Al agua, un día regresaré, un día en ella, me habré disuelto, sí, yo a mí mismo. Porque es mi destino, yo que llevo alma azulada, el alma de aquel pez anciano que se hizo humano. Cuando un día me pregunte, "¿de dónde vienes?" un amante gallego, le diré que tierra yo no tengo, le diré, "amor, mírame los ojos, su blancura viene de las espumas de los mares filipinos"... y la noche en que me bese los labios y luego la piel, le diré, "amor, sigue, porque las escamas ya no me duelen, ves que del agua ya estoy hecho, de los aguas quietas, ya estoy hecho..."
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Mar 11, 2023
Mar 11, 2023 at 9:31 AM UTC
A Coruña
Hubo tantas veces que casi me ahogué cuando era niño, durante lecciones de natación, fiestas de cumpleaños. Así, me da miedo aún bañarme en las piscinas, las playas, los lagos. Me da vergüenza enseñar al mundo mis escamas dolorosas, la piel que teme el calor de la arena, los rayos del sol como si fueran medusas que queman con sus besos. Es que mis heridas, debajo de cuyas cicatrices, siguen ardiendo... Quisiera que de agua yo fuera hecho. En Manila, cuando era estudiante universitaria, y tomaba el bus que por el boulevard Roxas pasaba, podía olvidar de mis problemas, del caos, solo con una mirada a la bahía. Y siempre me preguntaba, ¿podría ser que al mar le doliera su piel de agua? Me acuerdo de cuando en silencio sufría, contra ondas como orilla padecía: el abandono de un amigo a quien quería en secreto, padecía el rechazo de las obras que había escrito, padecía la soledad en esta cruel ciudad... en aquellos momentos pensé en caminar, con piedras pesadas en mis bolsillos y zapatos, despacio, despacio hacía el mar, hacía el fondo... para que por fin se cumpliese mi destino de morir en el agua y su abrazo... Pero a ella, nunca he aprendido odiarla. Y he llegado hasta mares gallegos, hasta Coruña y sus cristales, donde cada mañana le escribo canciones de amor y promesas al océano atlántico. Al agua, un día regresaré, un día en ella, me habré disuelto, sí, yo a mí mismo. Porque es mi destino, yo que llevo alma azulada, el alma de aquel pez anciano que se hizo humano. Cuando un día me pregunte, "¿de dónde vienes?" un amante gallego, le diré que tierra yo no tengo, le diré, "amor, mírame los ojos, su blancura viene de las espumas de los mares filipinos"... y la noche en que me bese los labios y luego la piel, le diré, "amor, sigue, porque las escamas ya no me duelen, ves que del agua ya estoy hecho, de los aguas quietas, ya estoy hecho..."
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Birds flew stagnant wings did stay there Course, frozen gazes like medusas stare As whispers became silent up stared. Upon did the phoenix burn, and all was Ash and fire. Screams of unknown were Swallowed in moments and silence birthed. Wings did perch to another place, but Screams did pierce the silence, as this bird Now illuminated and embers again fell. An angel fell, so many did, gracing air now Pain unfelt. Freedoms innocence did crumble Did fall pillars fragmented downwards. Day turned in to a perpetual grey night, All was consumed in the fallen, swallowed Was all silence, voices, people consumed. All were the same that moment, what stood Tall like the  phoenix now ash fell, covered In what was inanimate, lives severed gone. A moment Frozen, sealed in memory, in an Occasion that history will never forget remember Those gone, as towers and lives descended down.
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Jul 22, 2015
Jul 22, 2015 at 3:23 PM UTC
Phoenix Falling 9/11
god is a woman and she is angry. her tongue is a serpent, medusas mouth, and her fists are vultures. seven eyes, seven horns, seven doors. the angels are women too because only a woman can weep so much. someone unfurl her wings, break the lock. she is a dove and this is her olive branch. in the catholic church only men can be priests. but this church, this gold and silver church, was built from the bones of sleek coated mares, of birthing cows, of cream skinned ladies in veils and jewels and wine stains. ask delilah of samson. ask jezebel of ahab. salome of john, mary of joseph and magdalene of jesus. ask the moon of the sun. ask god about her daughter, the one still nailed to the cross, still awaiting birth in bethlehem. the carpenters daughter with a wooden stake at her neck. ask god about her other daughter, the one in nazareth still breathing desert air. ask god about her sons, sweet lazarus and wild lucifer, stepping on hot coals like summer asphalt. ask god about the forget me nots pressed to gravestones in the heat of august. ask god about the magnolias wilted against gravestones in the bite of december. ask god about the lions, the goats, and the lambs. ask about yourself, if youd like. god is a woman and hell hath no fury like a goddess scorned.
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Mar 20, 2016
Mar 20, 2016 at 4:04 PM UTC
The Gospel According to God's Daughter
I only realize I’m late once I notice that the woman with Medusa’s curls isn’t at the platform. People as units of measure. The clock of the world.
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Aug 24, 2020
Aug 24, 2020 at 10:30 AM UTC
medusas curls
When I was younger I had this idea of love As being a prewritten script I’d spot you on the dancefloor Our eyes would meet You would smile I would smile We would dance the night away All of a sudden you would have to leave It’s okay though You would leave your slipper That way I could return it So that you could be my princess What I didn’t know is that dancefloors aren’t meant for lovers Or that your eyes would be like medusas Turning my soul to stone And that when you left You shoe would stay on your foot Leaving me with an idea of love when I was a little older Love was my dad in the navy My mom the traveling nurse Meeting in Hawaii Getting married in a church Her waiting while he was away They’d love each other forever After all, they had me. But sometimes mom and dad fight And sometimes mom and dad cry Because let’s face it Mom and dad had this idea of love When they were younger And this wasn’t what they had in mind When I was a teenager i had this idea of love She had freckles and green eyes One half Irish One half Indian She had all of my heart She told me to write down my feelings And to trust in love Love way talking on the phone till 2am And holding hands in public But no one told me that love could have a father And that sometimes dads drink And go missing for a few days at a time Or that love could leave for 6 weeks And that talking on the phone till 2am Could turn into never sleeping Because love wasn’t there No one had warned me that love’s letters sometimes have misspellings And that when love returns home she wouldn’t feel the same And she never did Four years later Sometimes I think about love But not too much I am kind of done pretending
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Mar 28, 2016
Mar 28, 2016 at 8:46 PM UTC
When I Was Younger
When I was younger I had this idea of love As being a prewritten script I’d spot you on the dancefloor Our eyes would meet You would smile I would smile We would dance the night away All of a sudden you would have to leave It’s okay though You would leave your slipper That way I could return it So that you could be my princess What I didn’t know is that dancefloors aren’t meant for lovers Or that your eyes would be like medusas Turning my soul to stone And that when you left You shoe would stay on your foot Leaving me with an idea of love when I was a little older Love was my dad in the navy My mom the traveling nurse Meeting in Hawaii Getting married in a church Her waiting while he was away They’d love each other forever After all, they had me. But sometimes mom and dad fight And sometimes mom and dad cry Because let’s face it Mom and dad had this idea of love When they were younger And this wasn’t what they had in mind When I was a teenager i had this idea of love She had freckles and green eyes One half Irish One half Indian She had all of my heart She told me to write down my feelings And to trust in love Love way talking on the phone till 2am And holding hands in public But no one told me that love could have a father And that sometimes dads drink And go missing for a few days at a time Or that love could leave for 6 weeks And that talking on the phone till 2am Could turn into never sleeping Because love wasn’t there No one had warned me that love’s letters sometimes have misspellings And that when love returns home she wouldn’t feel the same And she never did Four years later Sometimes I think about love But not too much I am kind of done pretending
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My encaged still feet begin to grow restless at a pace ever so rapid My enraged heart squeezes my lungs breathless, a feeling so vapid Choice is thrown in the trash when you have a need to move like a magnet Voice and tone cause a splash, as water will concede to avoid being stagnant Rejoice, grown from the crash, imagination starts to bleed another fragment Do you know what it's like to never truly know a real home? Except for when you"re on the road again ever ready to roam? So many wild oats waiting for their fateful needle to be sewn Medusas eyes are the only way I'd lay as motionless as a stone Remind me please with a cleansing sneeze of my allergies I'm allergic to dying Bare feet on the gravel, I must travel or my soul will unravel My existence, is trying To deprive me of my drive would mean I am no longer alive
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Feb 18, 2013
Feb 18, 2013 at 6:34 PM UTC
Home...less
Im out of words to say The raw emotion I've put into words Have ceased to come out of my mind I no longer have anything of value to say to you. I no longer wish you were here next to me. I no longer long for your touch upon my skin. The statue is finally starting to feel life medusas gaze has touched another broken hearted boy. My cocoon has broken and I am spreading my wings flying as high as they will allow me. Soaring against the roaring winds breaking bad again. Life feels so good but soon one day I'll fall in love again and the grey skies will creep back up. Happiness always comes with a price. What will you give up? What will be taken away? Keep the TV on and stay tuned.
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Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 12:51 AM UTC
Stay tuned
Dancing with the mermaid upon the sandy shore. She flicked and tripped her feet away. Played the scales upon her tail. With a teaspoon. Perfectly in perfect time. Her ******* be bare. Save for concealment by her neatly placed golden hair. Of which not a strand fell out of place. Curling as if medusas' snakes. He surveyed her. Closer than he should have done. A pillar of stone crumbled into pebbles on a sunlit shore. The mermaid with the fateful allure. His wife walked the children on the beach. Skimming flat stones into the foamy brine. He once was her true love. Now he is mine. Wondered what became of her lover. The one who sold his soul to the striking sea. (c)Livvi
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Jul 9, 2015
Jul 9, 2015 at 6:43 AM UTC
ENCOUNTER
I wonder past its infectious glaring, its wanting to have me linger within its tapestry. I'm diminished within it presence, its vision attuned to my passing. "What do you want, as its lips sink into mine, repetitive ***** But as I stand in medusas lingering eyes, I see repercussions of an ill fated assumption that I safe. She attains what was desired, I am absorbed in this moment delirious of her actions. I watch as she grabs the broken glass from my vanity mirror, she smiles. My palm is a signature on the mirror of what has blemished this moment, as finger touch's hers and we die in reflection, my lips still, her smirk just lingers.
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Apr 2, 2016
Apr 2, 2016 at 12:58 PM UTC
Coaxed Into Its Tainted Reflection
Suspended in plankton waters Penetrating silence renders neutrality This shell, a cloak that covers me I sometimes wish could not be seen A drifting vessel I seek peace behind formations Ominously engaging, yet silently stand. Crashing waves roll above The bravado of Mahlerian timpani Perched yet unassuming I am the unthreatened spectator In this subaquatic symphony Illusory projections Inverted medusas glide past Graceful tendrils in tendu Ballerina specters Synchronized in adagio and ballon A momentary desire overwhelms To move within their majesty Omnisciently connected by design But mine is a different course A willing and solemn stride To waters of another intention
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Nov 27, 2016
Nov 27, 2016 at 6:08 PM UTC
Subaquatic Symphony - A Trilobite's Passage
El silencio del mar brama un juicio infinito más concentrado que el de un cántaro más implacable que dos gotas ya acerque el horizonte o nos entregue la muerte azul de las medusas nuestras sospechas no lo dejan el mar escucha como un sordo es insensible como un dios y sobrevive a los sobrevivientes nunca sabré que espero de él ni que conjuro deja en mis tobillos pero cuando estos ojos se hartan de baldosas y esperan entre el llano y las colinas o en calles que se cierran en más calles entonces sí me siento náufrago y sólo el mar puede salvarme.
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El silencio del mar
Not empty, but vacant. Gravel crunched on chilly slabs. Snakes curl from Medusas head. Emotionless wreck, not far from dead. The roses scattered on the floor. Once were black, they are no more. They are blue, pale blue. Knowing you are not to blame. But somehow I still do. Caught like a wriggling fish, After fly fishing. Fisherman, you are just for eating and you landed here upon my dish. Eating is all you are good for. Not worth loving any more. Pile on the chips, Just a little down. Bring on the salt and vinegar, And a chip fork with a tongue! (c)Livvi
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Sep 17, 2015
Sep 17, 2015 at 4:28 AM UTC
FISHING
Wibble Wobble Jellyfish, upon the sand an opaque dish. With spokes so fine, it brings to mind the iris of an eye. Or a precious gem, with a scalloped hem, catching the evening sun. The receding tide it could not ride, it settled one last time. It’s beauty as it lies still,  is all apparent and without thrill. The Medusas' movement quenched, without it's soupy brine. Above the grains of a sandy shore, it’s year of life is now no more. How does it feel to dry so slow. Is there pain I'd like to know. It's pulsing movement’s at its best, are over, it has comes to rest. Will it be aware, on the turn of the tide, it's form will take its last ride. It's billowing cloak and slick design shall not flutter another time Lions mane so long you say, for another year you flow away.
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Apr 3, 2021
Apr 3, 2021 at 5:13 AM UTC
Jellyfish
medusas eyes are vibrant lights; they turn me to stone. incandescent slits speak incantations wrapped in moans. her head of snakes their tongues that rake my dead skin from its bone. her garden breathes my nakedness; we touch when we're alone. her flowers lift their heads and wrap us tight as we are sewn. together we are sewn.
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Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 1:35 PM UTC
****** alchemy
En la eropsiquis plena de huéspedes entonces meandros de espera ausencia enlunadados muslos de estival epicentro tumultos extradérmicos excoriaciones fiebre de noche que burmúa y aola aola aola al abrirse las venas con un pezlampo inmerso en la nuca del sueño hay que buscarlo                                                                                                               al poema Hay que buscarlo dentro de los plesorbos de ocio desnudo desquejido sin raíces de amnesia en los lunihemisferios de reflujos de coágulos de espuma de medusas de arena de los senos o tal vez en andenes con aliento a zorrino y a rumiante distancia de santas madres vacas hincadas sin aureola ante charcos de lágrimas que cantan con un pezvelo en trance debajo de la lengua hay que buscarlo                                                                                                               al poema Hay que buscarlo ignífero superimpuro leso lúcido beodo inobvio entre epitelios de alba o resacas insomnes de soledad en creciente antes que se dilate la pupila del cero mientras lo endoinefable encandece los labios de subvoces que brotan del intrafondo eufónico con un pezgrifo arco iris en la mínima plaza de la frente hay que buscarlo                                                                                                               al poema
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Hay que buscarlo
En la eropsiquis plena de huéspedes entonces meandros de espera ausencia enlunadados muslos de estival epicentro tumultos extradérmicos excoriaciones fiebre de noche que burmúa y aola aola aola al abrirse las venas con un pezlampo inmerso en la nuca del sueño hay que buscarlo                                                                                                               al poema Hay que buscarlo dentro de los plesorbos de ocio desnudo desquejido sin raíces de amnesia en los lunihemisferios de reflujos de coágulos de espuma de medusas de arena de los senos o tal vez en andenes con aliento a zorrino y a rumiante distancia de santas madres vacas hincadas sin aureola ante charcos de lágrimas que cantan con un pezvelo en trance debajo de la lengua hay que buscarlo                                                                                                               al poema Hay que buscarlo ignífero superimpuro leso lúcido beodo inobvio entre epitelios de alba o resacas insomnes de soledad en creciente antes que se dilate la pupila del cero mientras lo endoinefable encandece los labios de subvoces que brotan del intrafondo eufónico con un pezgrifo arco iris en la mínima plaza de la frente hay que buscarlo                                                                                                               al poema
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