between nose-red gross | |
walls sprawling with tipsy | |
tables the abominable | |
floor belches smoky | |
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laughter into the filigree |
frame of a microscopic | |
stage whose jouncing curtain. , rises | |
upon one startling doll | |
undressed in unripe green with | |
10 |
nauseous spiderlegs |
and excremental | |
hair and the eyes of the mother of | |
god who spits seeds of dead | |
song about home and love from her | |
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transfigured face a queer |
pulp of ecstacy | |
while in the battered | |
bodies the odd unlovely | |
souls struggle slowly and writhe | |
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like caught.brave:flies; |
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