.. Gwendoline Karas
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of different use came upon a wiseman squatting, brown -withered as a limb displeasing god I stared at him- got right down, stared in his prune face: hey, old man- after an hour or so, hey old man--his tongue came out six inches, touched his nose let out a cackle, hoot, and shot right up son, tongues are great; wasted on words, why look----his legs shot into air, his red serape shucked to bush, on tongue he hopped, laughing the while. I came, I said to ask what is forbidden --what I heard were birds disturbed; birds know what takes to air what stays on ground--- and snail sound of that tongue-walk. greatness big and small forget about caesar started with seven hills then grabbed the rest, at best he was a pig for land world as truffles, what's to that- it's flat out ego, ergo think of someone pliant, gives his cloak, his love his life like damien- -that one lived with lepers, said you lepers, you then 'we'- a happy soul, had no luggage leaving just a wave goodbye, no hail nor hale, had just the softest hands- even -without fingers the big machine reading a book called gob's grief: story of a twin, whose bugler brother of ten, takes it in the eye at chicamauga... how a boy spends his life constructing a machine to bring back the dead and I wonder what little difference there is for any of us? building, building yesterdays and people lost how all eyes have been claimed -what strange gears turn- with what delight- what one-winged angels stand, one wing, one arm folded over our beds at night -what bones we roll under high and knocking moons Main Page
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