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Thinking about Nietzsche

                      and Art Blakey

and wanting to read

        “The Art of War” again

without any feeling

        left in the right ear

    deafness

           muteness

                  and forever

we are silenced

          like the slaughtered pig

       we eat for breakfast

and I’m getting real tired

                     of all this shit

              don’t think

          I can take it anymore

just trying to get by

             bah, excuses

       don’t need

               to hear all these

          bloody excuses

but the name

           of this poem

               is illiterate

          and I’m babbling

               incoherently

but you keep listening

               in hopes of hearing

                     What?

exactly what is it

       that we are searching for?

and I guess I remain

          utterly without a clue

finagling along at this pace

              without an idea

      of what is, after all,

              going on around here

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