There is
no
audience
because
there is
no audience.
So if you speak only to
imagined beings
what does 'only' mean?
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This building formerly a restaurant . . .
this small room has been scraped of its paint
and denuded of most former furniture: but
also it has grown in size—can a building be
enticed to grow? Because it is now as big as an
airplane hangar.
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Your
beautiful face
unbloodied beneath
flies
Mother of flies your
beauty
to turn to. If only
the audience
could see how
you are peaceful and the
flies
languid, glossy
But the audience will still bring
its own feelings
to these
words
not seeing you
not seeing
what I
am present for.
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Who has left me
here, I have.
Who are your
familiars
Come
into the
enlarging
page if you dare
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Because he invented
your shape I do mean
structure
because he invented you badly
everything is still hidden.
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I was to impale myself on a
quadrangular
steel rod, with a blunt end
with a blunt end
which would make puncture
more difficult
and I tried—it's too hard. I can't
Okay said the voice. I can't
Okay
then I was weeping
But it's blood! I'm
crying blood! I
screamed
That's part of it
said the voice.
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I think this is hard.
(That's part of it)
How they prefer him must go.
I think this is difficult singing
Length and repetition
create power
If this voice can return like
a body
It resembles something that's already been,
Changing.
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Chestnuts broken
autumnal fungi
so you will remember, that
it's fall
outside
falling. you'll go down
this is no story for the puling
social classes
No not at all
it's for us my familiars say
who let me weep blood on their ground.