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Response to Force


The rain falls formless in this world.
With this same form
of man-eating assumptions
about how and where to set your brain on a bookshelf
and how to create your sentences
to be intelligent,
to articulate emptiness

we will win the prize
an IQ prize
the prize of money despite the lack
We will be rewarded for our vapid identity
with nothing but running mouths attacking the sunset
ruining all that is art

It is said again
as battlestar dementia double takes
a star-studded mouth of diamond
articulates.

After all, we must die in the guts of these people
die with the colorful thoughts that bring us out
of sleep.