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NINE STEPS TO CALIFORNIA short poem in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.
In this poem, someone who has made an unwise number of pharmacological experiments struggles for coherence, but fails to achieve it. |
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The rambling sky is racing from ebon to violet. The traffic cops have infiltrated my beer fridge. My gravesite has migraine. The bony hands on amnesia have their claws on my memory.
Your calligraphy is beyond me, indecipherable. The highways have encrypted our organics, have enforced their algorithms upon us. Before I did drugs, the loudspeaker was already there, lodged within my head, broadcasting from Egypt. Let me smoke your milk. Let me roll it. Let me rise from your thighs, whey-faced and exhausted, to face the unadulterated impetus of the sea. |
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