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confirmation day

     "the argument of innocence can only be 
      lost if it is won"-kenneth patchen

once again pitching word at the void
wild, unbridled & cantankerous
impossibility splashed
across ordinary shadow
hustling glory out of purgatory
to rightful throne
ambiguous animal in throes of ignition
throwing light on everything
but the subject
screaming root of evolution
unruly child
pissing in presidential shoes
confounding maestro
with harmolodic libation
knocking babel's debris
from today's headline
ignoring baited conundrum
for irrational leap
at absolute crunch
bigger than mummified myth
or nostalgic grease spot
but smaller than life size

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