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I like these!

But because I have a canine nose I am a compulsive editor: "Breathe" and "Disdain."

Okay, sorrow, I want to go into biz, but now I'm hoping to find a way to sell my arf. I mean, ART.

Wooorf! Burrrr row row row.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Long ago, inspired by love's betrayal and John Fowles' 'Magus'...

THE PRIZE (BEFORE AND AFTER THE ECHO)

My mind would’ve seen you if my eyes were blind;

the snatches of lipped smile and shouting breasts

arresting me to the sexual swatting of fly

and the ill-confident prayer for mounting music

where you and I compose the life and crowd

Introduce rituals expected and enacted

Exhibition saddles the safe of inhibition

so that I’m visiting within you and you in me

Discoveries in sweaty, adult-worded nothings

granted respect by fleshy objects with strings

The feeling floats that we’re bugs on blissing bloom

and so committed are we to the glowing Oneself

that we’re lending hearts without I.O.U.s

Who knows or cares whose is whose

when purpose is abandoned for the dream-awake

Laughter twists in the fatalism of dishonesty

I say objects are objects, you ask what’s in-between

We’ve forgotten our bodies to fuck with our minds

so that solutions play hide-and-seek and love is intrusive

Should we have known that happiness obsesses holes?

This new mind order breeds discomfort and interest

Am I a leaf on a tree or a tree with leaf?

Unanswered, ignorance is a shield and I the common Man

…but asking travels the way of echoes of echoes

until I accept that redemption and victim live hand in hand

This is Alone.

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