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I have many ideas for you it’s time to meet
in this room I have
its color is very odd
torn like animals, half-apart and reversed
grey/pink, grey to pink how I hate it all
a morphed coral gullied absence of talk
and I’m glad you turn up with your great confidence
as if you could predate the moon
or buy me a new head
but I don’t know where your “viscera of the moments”
came from, nor do I
know the limbic system, its belt between what and what
I want to say it is the simple standing
in a kitchenette
the water cold and totally silver.
A fight. A noise
because you’d driven off, down a caving stem of road
“caving stem” being
the brain being
what you think I think
Jane Lewty is author of the poetry collection Bravura Cool and co-editor of two collections of essays, Broadcasting Modernism and Pornotopias: Image, Apocalypse, Desire.
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in your carpeted office you lay my life down / and say open up to that small room in my sternum.
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