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THE SEPERATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL
I lost control because of you
Missed the bridge
Spent the night in stained pants
Cold as concrete and iron
They held myself shameful
Kept you from me for a time
But in my mind
Dreams of a woman and man
Not at all recognizable
This house is not as warm as expected
Little bits of life form in cobwebs
They make up stories
Pathetic, thicker than mud
Unlike dried summer grass strands
Heaved into the winter furnace
Not as heavy as coal and snow
But still the same
Frost bitten blistered hands
That shovel is a time piece
Tears frozen like memories
Cheeks chapped, winter Tulip
Ugly slate roof green farmhouse
Evil played in the yard
It was so exciting
Eating mutton off the spit
Among the monsters of mad men
Railroad workers cutting through it
Silence or the bedroom radio
And their sisters that kept the books
Contagious with provocative curiosity
In the old chicken coop
Only I knew what lay beneath the thin soil
Of earth and skin
Broken terracotta labyrinth
Wild Rosemary drinking from the sling
The fireflies awake in the moist warm spring
We ran and flickered like them
Pretending to smoke the reefer we found
In the wreaked cars towed to the junk yard
Under those big fat seats
Beside the sheep pen
The lambs that follow the ewe
Eaten by dogs with gender eyes
Sleeping in the hollow oak
The red tick by the driveway
Jason struck down twice in a night
In the morning we saved his life
Then he faded away
Then I faded away
Then the rest were cast away
Rolled away into hell
Crickets chirped in the safe grass
But no one was there to hear
Certainly not to listen
Only the garbage man came
Picked up the trash, went home
Ate dinner fell asleep
Dreamed of heaven
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