ancestors were onto something or on something one way cul de sac unrolling or creeping the surprise of mistaken identity rude not to notice or to kill them again who took who gave their lives who furnished nation who in a thankless nation someone’s darling served a cold dish did not deserve horror mainly dig them up now see who’s horrified whose disease we surpass whose disease is if you could only open up your mouth not talk in bird sounds and visiting me again, is it a surprise I cannot reconstruct the agony ate you up you follow me now. Beasts of religion or what is belief no hope no agony must be the right word and contest life over death on. Conscious is over your shoulder not standing. It lies about where you are, cloud in the upper atmosphere unrolls, creeping things are the impulses you have and hold and have hold, You strike out in dreams. alone. play your many pipes play and dance and sing in birdsong if it has to be you did not kill or stole are not a man planted your seed not in the carcase your sin in the hill. ... “you are only the living face of those who have gone before” — 20 August 2022 ... 22 August 2022
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