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BEATITUDE #5-b

THREE POEMS



I.

Because I can see all stretching away.
Because all moments to be
are current
and candid
The future responds to itself in a terrible way.
The Incest of Togetherness
Shadows these things
There are no possibilities of importance.


II.

                              The lofty gaze of twenty centuries
                              Watches down on us
                              Disputed by gulls and
                              Destroyed by ourselves
                              Half-concious of how half-conscious we will be
                              Later in the day.
                              The morning is mute
                              The greyness is not un-completely gay.
                              And we all revolve around a basic stillness, I think
                              Once we are up and on our way

                                                      III.                                           


September is a silly month.                      
It sits on people                                           
                                                           who are static                                              
                                                           hurting                                                            
                                                           tired                                                                 
dying                                                                
tummies.                                                        
Touching at their wanting nerves             
and laying into                                               
bumping                                                         
dragging                                                         
their only last time                                       
never knowing                                              
only                                                                  
will                                                                   
be                                                                    
No                                                                    
next August brains.
                                    

                                                                Tom Lipsett

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