Tom Clark Poems

Great moment in Blade Runner where Roy
Batty is expiring, and talks
about how everything
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ephemeral as tinkerbell
unmoored yet not unmoved
tossed cloudward, flipped
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Whoso list to haunt could do worse than to
Obtain the license, get the picture.
Spook finders must find spooks to put the face,
Name and space coordinates together.
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The god of war assured King Arsounas, "Do not be fooled by words. No life is taken. Know that no one was ever born, nor does anyone die." In the violent mini-eternity of the warrior,
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Wyatt, with no insurance on his own head,
watching the execution of Anne Boleyn
from his cell in the Tower, while beyond
on Tower Hill her lovers also are executed,
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Always behind my back I hear
The spastic clicking of jerked knees
And other automatic reactions
Tracking me through the years to where
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Don't hurt the radio for
Against all
Solid testimony machines
Have feelings
Too
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The smashed weirdness of the raving cadenzas of God
Takes over all of a sudden
In our time. It speaks through the voices of talk show moderators.
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Nice spring day off big white cloud
At Inspiration Point escaping time wars
Poet takes book & wine bottle up into Mist Mountains
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The angel asked, as his shoulders were pressed into the stone
Why me? And taken away from the inhabited body,
Like the lyric voice rustling from memory forests,
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