Blue water drift dive emerald adrift5/26/2023 'Tell me, what is happiness?' 'Happiness? Happiness. c /o S C, Y ear 115 (E arth, K hmer c alendar). Ras d-Codures a Diz iet E mbles s S ma da' M arenhide. T he c atc hm ent of thes e c ultured lives W as not in fles h, A nd what we only knew, You felt, W ith all the m arrow of your twis ted c ells. B ut you knew your figure c ut a c ipher T hrough every c rafted plan, A nd playing our gam e for real S aw through our plum bing jobs A nd wayward glands To a m eaning of your own, in bones. A nd thos e who found you, Took, rem ade you ('Hey, m y boy, it's you and us knife m is s iles now, Our lunge and s peed and bloody s ec ret: T he way to a m an's heart is through his c hes t! ') - T hey thought you were their plaything, S avage c hild the throwbac k from waybac k E xpedient bec aus e Utopia s pawns few warriors. W ith c raft and plane and s hip, A nd gun and drone and field you played, and W rote an allegory of your regres s In other people's tears and blood T he tentative poetic s of your ris e From a m ere and s hoddy grac e. Did they tell you what you wanted to be told? Or rain-s kinned on a c onc rete fas tnes s, Fortres s is land in the flood You walked am ongs t the s m as hed m ac hines, A nd looked through undrugged eyes For engines of another war, A nd an attrition of the s oul and the devic e. 'Slight Mechanical Destruction' Zakalwe enfranc his ed T hos e lazy c urls of s m oke above the c ity, B lac k worm holes in the air of noontim e's bright Ground Zero. It was his idea to argue the old warrior out of retirement, and he suggested the fitness program, too. Acknowledgement I blame Ken MacLeod for the whole thing.
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