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11 O'CLOCK NEWS BLOG
shine shaking soul
breaks over shot! last heartbeats:
before it goes. opened to the
way the world runs on its
bumpy axis.

burn abruptly heart will
fix this with blood to the
leg: enter the march; to the
palm: curl into-the-air-fist;
body hard as stainless
steel will take out carpenter
tools and seal every crack
in the ceiling.
rage!

mixed-up, mashed-up brain
goes push-pull, push-pull
sinking into the heavens with
stagnant air, forming systems of
synapses entitled "change the world"
until

angry mob reaches the body-wall
and "one person at a time" doubles
the task by millions, and heave-ho!
heave-ho! run run run and restless
muscle, surge and all twenty
phalanges go crazy with doubt
and no mind can fathom millions unless

build pleasure-dome! of fantasy story
(and this story can change the world)
with pencils dancing to sitar tune
(one person at a time)
blowing letters into the world, black
clouds scribe "it's no big deal. it has already
happened" and the nurse removes her needle
from your artery: you float.

into sleep-hole, fuzzy water floating,
plastering the shine simmering soul with
band-aids of all colours. the heart, saying goodnight,
saunters off. then

gunshot gathers
passers-by, passing by burning body.
this tugs at the imaginary foundations
and evaporates the colours into
dim-dark corner of hard city.

and under the impermanence of dreamland,
shine shaking soul
break-breaks