Michael Lentz Poems

maybe it is so, maybe it is but also so not
maybe. so it is. maybe. But is it also? not so.
maybe. is it so? maybe. Is it but so also not.
Maybe it is. so! Maybe is it. but. also. not . so.
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who hears what comes from outside I.
could only be a car mount's tone
that no one misses, that comes alone
all on its own from where the heck.
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takes not
upper hand
enough
of all that
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an elder lady a walker crutch
streetside curb and whitish pigeon
there rolls the walker on along old woman
and with her shoe bad to foot
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the mass, the handle
the lacking proportion, the handle's meal
the measured tankard, the hangman's axe
the measure that divides
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The power source of the iron hammer is waterpower.
An immensely embattled waterwheel transmits
power to huge hammer shaft.
On this a cam ring sits
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come not one step further
than where the railtracks lie
than where the tunnel, craven,
as it floats on by
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The thing is the earth's state
Stating's that is the thing
Urgently it states: that is
The state of things. That is
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can I do something at all for you?
can I do something for you at all
can I do something for you.
can I do something
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