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10-Entry Wound

Entry Wound

Getting this party started, put out the lights

the dead don’t need the money, a conservative guess.

Drinking to enlightenment, foot across foot

intelligent factions held to the extreme.

Excellence in form, scathe to one’s foundations

an eyeball to radio another safe bet,

realising certain values, prayed for indefinitely

softening stances where none left to go.

Reading taking its time, tripping off the tongue,

illicit beer fashions a weekend away

reading into briar’s eventual crown,

behold the off-scouring of the world, detached.

Gainful employment, declared through song,

spoken word will eventually have its say,

editing through colouring the lost notebook

hurtling over policy realised through effort.

Resurrecting crass mistakes, prayed for solitude

cascading the bonfire of vain performance

cleaning up nicely at a haggard expense

eating without ensure a golden deity.

Washed and dried away, beloved by many

coffee in an instant shrills the purgatorial

declarative in fear of another’s inkling

coldly going where none has gone before.

Patricia Walsh

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