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Midnight nears the clock clicks its heels

And the birds go wandering home

To empty nests in cardboard houses

Built on vapour smoke and foam

Where furniture and flesh court dust and rust

Together and alone

Like trees falling into the forest no one listens

What happens in the night time

After the sun washes its hands

Of everything yellow light prevents

From the dangers of the dance

Of darkness uninhibited

Do you even want to take that chance

You might end up on a list of missing persons

Black crows beckon from their ledges

High above the ground

They shake the quiet they’ve gathered

From their wings and scratch out sounds

Which terrify all passers by

The truth is hard to hear once it’s found

Then they swoop like angels burned off Jacob’s ladder

The holy man announced his plan

To turn wine back to water

He was strung up by the drunken mob

Chanting the time for miracles is over

The wrapped his body in newspaper

And burned him in the words he could not alter

Saying unto a mirror one should never try to flatter

Sunlight rummages the beach

And cleans out hollow shells

The sand flames sufficiently heating

The shadows of lonely sould

Walking on the fringes of waves

Which pounce and fade farewell

To spoil a hope which springs eternally on the surface

The scientific poet dresses up

His images with the facts

He hangs on chains from certificates

In silver frames behind smoked glass

He writes everything that has yet to occur

Has already happened in the past

We elevate wise men by digging ditches

Soldiers fill their pales with steam

For bulletshell-like spines

While trees live and die repeatedly in rings

Which mark the march of time

It crawls by slowly for those entrenched

And for others it speeds unkind

While soliloquies to skulls become confessions

The box we would have distance hold

A lifetime without blame

Is to heavy for the skyway

Without faith-chariots and chains

Although it bloomed on an ancient tongue

Nothing yet from nothing ever came

We bury our answers six feet beneath our questions

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