Walter Burns Poems

i threw my shavings
over downtown death.
saw myself in the rainbow
mirage of a cavity casing
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Conformity's an old cuss
pitching forth from a scratchy throat.
A pawing fawn about to walk
on its own four letters
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Self married Sheila
begetting a pair
of Him and Her
lived Everywhere
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If smiles must lead to dust
softly, beginnings,
do not touch
the moment I kiss,
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nas
cart
an other
body
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There is nothing
new in this world
Matter, prefabricated
nor destroyed
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I curl up
to a molten mylar
dream
suffocating
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lonely were a thesis
of bones and stretched connections
a carcass-sized selection
of a hundred thousand lines
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the keyboard's a graveyard
each letter a tombstone
I push them to flush out
the demons within
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Children,
give me your nibbles
grow up and grow down again
I'll stretch you like pre-masticated silly putty
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