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  Ed Pavlic

Character Witness: As Told To Indigo Wink & Silken Mask

 

 
could have told you all along
said even I could have told
you all along   he’d shut his eyes
& the light stayed on   rock broke
scissors & he sent hot strings
thru blasted bands   said new-found
& old-town ghosts told him : be hard

be hard   his first arrest   charge:
suggestive contortion   said
his body so-placed   lude
echo to sidelong thoughts   said
he couldn’t just watch   listen
said his brain was a basket
with a wet snake inside   songs

takeover   sight   sound peels
from an orange   corks popped in
b flat   said : first person stops
talking deals with me   be hard
to the clouded spirits    be
hard    be clouded spirits   said it twice
snow falls too slow   said it   slow
 

 

 

 

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