a normal title

I'm just

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Icy wind, coils of earthy smoke curl to white

Full moon candied ice glare on the street

Follow along with words written, cast aside in cigarette butts

The first mantra, like the last:

Au-ü Seul Kamm-a
Tat-tet aziz
Osaureh la meh
Nodah kî serht

Blown on smoke and moonbeam, this the fullest of our cycle

Cut right
Smoth white light
Jibber-jabber, mish-mash

Twelve footprints
tracing back ten leagues or more
the day before

Breathe in,
Peaceful.
Breathe in,
filled to the brim with love for another day I've lived
emptied out into the sky above and
RAINED
on pavement
twelve floors below

Grated vent
intricate form of line and swirling mist
soul-kissed

Left and right I'm drawn
not the dark, but dawn
spoken
missed

Opera song like laughter in stair wells

Paint that's flaked off and below greenish swells

Oceans made of dust and orange-blur-air

School of Business, asphalt, smell of hair

Just to breathe
just to make a light
just to re-align things - to update - to MAKE RIGHT

A blade of grass is growing
Pebbles hiss and spit
Full moon, berries, shrubs, small children are all talking
a tangle of monodromes and paleoliths
web for spiders, but no spider wants to sit

Instead dissolve the tender flesh and bone
seeped down to snow-melt
down into the ground
leaping forth ten minutes past
lightning strikes more often than that

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I am in such a wonderful smooth mood right now... my headache of headaches has receded and I am just a fatigued person at a keyboard.

So, before I rest I just wanted to comment on that free-poetry that just occured above. It's a picture of one of my favorite places on the Madison Campus... I'll let you guess where it is.

One more thing. I want everybody who reads this to sit down and think of something you REALLY love... a person, a place, a feeling... and thank whatever that thing is for touching you in such an important way. It is really almost the most relieving thing I could possibly think of.

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