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DESERT ABSTRACT by JANE MILLER

First Line: IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A LITTLE DIFFERENT
Last Line: SHOWERING A DESERT ON ETERNITY

It might have been a little different,
your hair auburn or brown, longish,
torn about by a rip-wind,
high tide, the muffled pounding deafening,
an explosion in a pillow
emblazoned on my face like
a like a lie invading a smile
blood coming in on a northeaster,
our steamy souls
destined for the plates of gods,
an indestructible hour
of suffering like gods
after they have eaten and been surprised
by their slaves and skewered
screaming "history now" "destiny now"
everyone wanting a little quiet
in the end, a kind of reserve
following the buck and resound
of our finally pouring our hearts out,
our wharf rats and moon slag hosed down
for white space
which regrets nothing
is not guilty
and reprimands the violets
we hydrate by whispers by real feelings by tears,
showering a desert on eternity



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