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Niner Liner: Surlier Poets Will Write It Differently
Our structures tower higher than those of the ancients
so that our stockbrokers can suicide more successfully
than those who bought and sold historic kingdoms and empires.
When the great ship, sinking, plunged into the dark depths,
the creatures that inhabit, there, neither noticed nor cared when
its bifurcated body slammed into the silt of the sea's floor.
I prefer crushed ice to chill my tea; it achieves a colder
temperature. When lemons are adequately sour,
they are already doomed to decompose, unless we consume them.
Starward
