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Procession (Free verse) by Fear of Garbage
I shall have to settle for being annhilated and ancient. You impress me with your thumb, or face, poked and poketed with rough old runes. Our preparations are being secured. You ask me and I say, forget the laurels and go with the clover, or the city lights and gothic shapes, or the spirals and burning towers. Forget the spheres, forget the lit eyes, the digits or the wrist. There is just nowhere to get to from here. Somehow I do not trust this undertaker. Quite likely he's got no mother or knuckled ego, making the noise of miners in their company and sleep of the dead. A bowl sits upon a pedestal. Grainy and undereaten. How strange it is to occupy no space. How strange it is to murmur with No emotion. She's presenting her body like an old sheet, Exhausted, two chalises, one adorned, a strange, plain box with no name upon the lid. She gets a platform underneath to support the air intake or something of discharge. We've all exhausted our wrists and our sharp islets. A strange drink we have all swallowed. We settle like marshes in flame and air and foam, eyes ornamented, tongues silent but clucking while the lines and the black robes roll like engines. And we ask nothing of life.

Up the ladder: fences
Down the ladder: Sarah

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Arithmetic Mean: 6.8
Weighted score: 5.2145653
Overall Rank: 4340
Posted: March 28, 2003 10:53 AM PST; Last modified: March 28, 2003 10:53 AM PST
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Comments:
[8] Ranger @ 213.120.56.37 | 27-Apr-03/6:34 AM | Reply
Strange, yet beautiful in a weird kind of way.
I wouldn't trust an undertaker either. 8
[8] Ranger @ 213.120.56.37 > Ranger | 27-Apr-03/6:35 AM | Reply
Ever heard 'The Undertaker's Lament'?
[10] ecargo @ 64.252.80.143 | 18-Aug-03/5:28 PM | Reply
This is great--amazing lines and flow; really lyrical and creative. Most excellent first line. Burial and ritual and dust and history--you just weave this incredibly. I think it'd be even better if you ended on "engines"--the last line is too "here's my point!" and it's almost generic in contrast to the rest of this. This is terrific.
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