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Or A Moratorium
  
Holding on the decaying patterns 
of an apparent destruction 
& interrogated by night spies
  
from which everyone lies 
my love hateful as once was kind 
in this allegory is shrouded.
  
For was only yesternight 
out of a worthless seconding 
that the yearning went yonder
  
& see all that bitterness 
has returned back here today. 
But how how deduce the longing
  
when in the midst of a recent tempest 
a vintage sadness sets out 
to subjugate you. Must we willingly
  
sentence ourselves to the narcotic 
erotic of a hanged woman 
whose mouth & limbs droop
  
to the ground in sound 
or remain resilient with reason 
& condemn the ill-subliminal
  
the feminine you, to a benighted  
eagerness which may every minute 
terror lift. How then must one
  
describe the dismissal if not 
in a delphian lament against sorrow 
what now could be composed of when
  
but stoically submerged & complicated in  
my own thinking of you, never here 
somewhat always tearing through. 
 
  
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