Jan Sand Poems

Split me in two
And spread the gash.
There, between the pillows
Of my lungs, tangled
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My floor is littered
With corpses.
The older they get,
The more they stink.
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Let's bake a cake for a snake,
Fill our jeans with jellybeans,
Comb our hair with a rake,
Paint our ears with blues and greens.
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There is a morning fog here
That rises from the snow
To inhabit head-tall space
In a lightless glow.
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There was an old man who was lonely and grim
And excessively technically minded.
He lived with a cat and an owl that was fat
And a fancy new clock. He=d designed it.
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The chill air tumbles down from the moon
And splashes through trembling leaves
Tainted by the icebergs of Europa.
Silently, like a frenzied animal,
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The waltz of warmth
That dances in and out
Of each year
Is played on instruments
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Speeding down the road at sixty klicks,
The tires hiss across the mist of summer rain,
Water craters, bursting fields of instant flowers
Blooming, gone, blooming, gone, blooming -
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In the world of wizards
Where words can sizzle, freeze;
Where chance remarks
Can bring down larks
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The eye leads and the mind follows.
The ear leads and the mind follows.
The touch leads and the mind follows.
The hounds of mind go howling down the avenues,
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