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were I to sleep
slumber deep like death reaping dreams seeped in blackness madness' folly sailor's tree tops Dead Sea views leeward I fall falling downward avant-garde rhymes churchyard frenzy charred afterlife marred afterlife loving wife left sharp knives in view strife, gore and death no stark dream, just a trance… must not think… trust not in lust sold for coins lust sold for coins needing loins take purloined pleasure joins with red dreams death reaping dreams shoot morphine, calm dire screams which wake beams of darkness death's abductor silent whirring beggar of dreams were I to sleep unconscious views 23 november, 2006 [2006.23.11...i] Linking four-line Than-Bauk See the elaboration at "unconscious views - a sestina"
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