Eternal Recurrence

 

 

                            dyad                       synchronicity ::
                                                          fundament

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                 recursive
commitment to talc, sky/
                                                           light

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                                        discovered in America

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                                                                                            Streets named for implements: the cathode tube. A more
                                                                                            superior  latchet,  patented  in  Cleveland  in  1892.  The
                                                                                            knuckle that crimps a bulb's fine filament.  Paris as tech-
                                                                                            nological synaesthesia

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                                        swatch of faded crepe
                                                   
of indeterminate shade

                                                               myth of the historical Gretchen
                                                                                 cult of triumph over the dead

Caesar vs. Zarathustra
            (say, a shopkeeper
                                                     vows

         not without my fourth century                

                                        He has been forewarned:
                                                   the blackboard, the ferrule,
                                                                          the intricate sums—

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                                                       as with awl

                                        (would you not curse
                                                      this demon)

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In the best room all the boats are moored. Coils of rope underfoot. Schtik / commingling as with aconite. Drama of discovery: "stars" & "flowers." When bird is bird, emphatically. Timepieces of the apartments—at the fifth intersection—rum; Bastille Day. Someone is always belonging to someone

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(a gate leading to      
                 withered arbors

 

 

 

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