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Primum Mobile     10

  AND real time is dead; proof terrorizes
                                  all the way in or all the way out de-tasking
                                                                heterocosm leaps out
nothing night in the after.
    Span participles gist, encore every magnified
hand me over bodiless scour-the-world diversion
we hear prescriptionable organs of comprehension:
    salute versus horizon, unsubsumable upside
whipped concentrics
                                  amortize the glance all inamorates
                                  pinpoint daisy chain color puffs
to infinity sucking plenitude surveillance
    Earning its satin scramble under
                                  phraseless difference defeat speech
                                  glory took heat reconvening orchid pages:
splendid hyperbolic innocence.
    Dreambulatory script off passion impresses gesture cure
                                  no reckoning, the dream spawns
                                  the truth the cell is
                                  strictly a nostalgic thing for me now,
    sugar raised revved posthumous
                                  sensible space cancels before impossible
speed under canon limelit to ample zero hush.
    The little king pickets the flame
                                  sum hypothesize – pearl perfect
superiorate us – the inostensible irradiated overnight.
    Inner plus & surplus proof ovation immobilizing
disenchantment preconcerted with itself – generous
                                  generous customize elation celebrated dark
                                  downed front tangent intact,
    & out of sight, out of mind – lap me in fold apotheosised
to a yesplus lingua(l) anti-never, news is a book
whitened out abandon;
    it’s time to mutate always
                                  is always erotic web-spinning sonar
                                  a present-tense exhalation is within
                                  marginal legible above nerve memory heart
                                  site binds: I do not see through words
sight as dreams gratefully certain.
    Sin no facts, mostly the usual crush of possibilities
                                  adverse concentrics recede
cut rear rumor of circumference – if it slipped on my bed,
I wouldn’t eat the other it – pulse just lips
convening reproaches in ever-smaller chamber.
    And how very vanishingly little jet lamblike spell of flesh
                                                                disembarking soothe
                                  infinite night’s chance sentence eclipse
writes invulnerable sentences.
    So abundant arrestless – who’s melt? – pinwheeling on
and in breezes mammal’s prime prevalent lotion!
    Embrace Me – get the skin in it, honey? – flash
                                  add up to alabaster
                                  legato lullaby network in one eclipse
compose lips never algebra without addition,
    glimmer accidents mixed in
the radiating out hyacinth stuff – pixilated
shoosh of baby matter honeysuckle corners conflate – OK,
anacoluthon me some harmonious totalities:
threshold absorbs abolition, time cures inquisitors.
    Urine shouldn’t common: venom’s liquor of love
meal plans off Mdnght Wish for bubble bathing monozygotes
                                  accord laps lessons abandon
expiates still wet elective facility in amatory soil.
    Your emotions or your evidence – grace spools minus hole
come to please reverse unique mystique, stir self assert sluices
‘getting beyond’ hurdle size self stripping ebbs –
women delete the men
ballast depicts winning.
    Shatter plus impresses incognito salute
                                                                not love like any like
                                                                a sauce as unless
I shall always want everything, I
got the tongue out of my throat –
                                  immobile claims reciprocate
reward in the infinitive mucus temptation.
    Point neither promise without intoxication
– it’s not inevitable, it’s sweet; overall sudden
‘meta trade off’ is the whole body pure assertive melt
                                  flesh for itself, no ceiling? – … kisses
leap without beyond will & nill impossible immersion in
chronic redundant hope;
    closure, such vanity – the genre of too much
stitchless goodnight science makes an unmaking
difference interval annuls – preparatory lace
speech, prolific pinwheel, love melts friends
all in the punctuation.
    The heartbeat definitely to extinguish
logician’s sleep degreeless carefully disreputable in orbit
                                  lost in tiniest fold lip so fact o –
                                  circumlocutory stilts edit existing body
if you toss on a marshmallow, swerve extends out:
                                                                new mayhem never enough
                                  stirs multiple hearts burn
christmases of the heart in syllables.
    Antisuggestibility glows attenuate the immbolizer
                                  astonishment pulls at – thenour
the pigments
                                  I pack up a glance – pettiness crams
                                  pink included publicity subscribe this
farewell-soaked farewell;
    dream microphones bellissimo
                                  the stage, visible from a distance –
                                  high night completeless travestied surprise
                                  storm relaxes proximity ink at leap year
lipsynching flash in dark.
    Kiss the book some – future – atoms
                                  axis at silly indefinitely diversify
calendar tossle, inclouded, to hire change;
    & sweet dreams resisted fix-up treats without
                                  perfecter exile delight – no corners – zig-
                                  zag porous luxury propulsion
takes the arc through circumstance farewell magnetizes:
                                  Illegitimate exclusion! –
stakes contracted them all.
    Oh let’s have socialism relentlessly gentle
                                  praxis singed undoing most distant
privacy overreacts, parachuting the past.
    Oh deign some spinning works its norm
                                  precipitated in a moment –
wait for the book enarmed unionizing future
prejudging multiple unscissored surprise!
    Cartwheeled tactics dip your fingers in the vow
                                  buried my birthday
                                  red partisan shocks proof infinite to atoms
                                  architected Pandemonium cut-to-fit-the-mouth,
    we’re in the happy neutral counter-automata – Dreamsdo-
cometrue – matriarchal matrix be anything
to annex willing total all is one
end of the world dance luscious by-the-book.
    Give me a bigger cage – rootless headlong faction burst
                                  delectable standard – elsewhere
geometry at total, raptures diaphanous closeout diagram
generalizes fingers arraigned as chocolate,
    adorable base alias reality image refusal emboldens
fetus using your body without your consent –
its sweet front lathed with
this is something else;
    propitious heat headless opportunity
                                  in order of promises, dirigibles of promise
                                  we neatly did fill their blanks –
valedictory honeymoon burns in the pagination.
    The nightmerest fantasia fitted from blame priority melts
less to write paraphrased hyperbole retraversal than it us –
                                                                ryang ner vah plew! –
                                  equally read abode pink
cope lush coda abruptless,
    risk disappears closing perfume
                                  row of exclamation points
                                  unleash all tenderness suspends future
                                  to voice vote to heat
                                  for hope lay still late
let’s start all over stars.