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poetry is Popeye's last dried-out can of spinach
poetry is the purgative of a pigged-out conscience
poetry is the frozen Sahara of midnight
poetry is an inaccessible cliff above a collapsed cableway
poetry is a bus after the last one
poetry is a postcard from the dead museum of marble and lacquer
poetry is an owl which always hoots at the wrong time
poetry is palpated cirrhosis
poetry is the flight of stairs into Leonardo's skull
poetry is the eternal beach of bikini girls
poetry is the weasel-smell silence of empty chicken coops
poetry is terror stricken tugging at a jammed latch
poetry is a desperate fast passage on the organ
poetry is the lance of Spinoza the gun of Plato and the bilious colic of Jesus Christ
poetry is an unknown single syllable word
poetry is discovery of a motionless crocodile during the final dive
poetry is a turtledove chased with a broom
poetry is an undiscovered vaccine against all vanities
poetry is the one and only full stop in the sketchbook of nightmares
poetry is deliberately sliding into a pit
poetry is a darkened town illuminated meadow dried-up ocean
poetry is the completed circle of the rainbow
poetry is a decision handed down from the workings of the state
poetry is bird bone fish bladder shopping basket
poetry is the immeasurable half-life of god's eternality
poetry is foolishness and light supper
poetry is a dribble of honey on the breast of girls
poetry is John Keats' blind and deaf monologue about the resurrection
poetry is the third face of Janus
poetry is the last pre-war string quartet
poetry is a mine-field yet to be laid
poetry is volcanic lava heavenly ambrosia golden afternoon
poetry is the solar system size of customs
poetry is constricted elegance
poetry is a fad smile from precisely 28 years ago to the day
poetry is the quiver of the hand giving up belladonna LSD morphine
poetry is a map of heaven's Underground
poetry is sly confrontation of unpayable debt
poetry is timely recording of all suspicions
poetry is smoke forefinger and the soulless ubiety of long words
poetry is rubble not taken away wall not demolished roof without building
poetry is the endless ribbon of girl gymnasts
poetry is the last moment of choking preceding discernment
poetry is coerced confession of ultimate disgrace
poetry is a glass of red before the light of dawn
poetry is the systematising anatomy of dark nooks
poetry is the body of fairy tales to a time table
poetry is a hand that feeds dragons
poetry is the desperate aesthetic of flowing colours
poetry is the last swarming of bees and all that follows
poetry is torn rigging on a departing ship
poetry is daydream and skirts adjusted on slender thighs
poetry is Neptune's windstorm held on stand-by
poetry is a stratagem drowned in laughter
poetry is when a red snake curls upon the heart
poetry is Hannibal's retreat at the sight of the Himalayas
poetry is diary school inspector and the blissful spreading of all divine lies
poetry is a kangaroo which hops into its own pouch
poetry is napalm hydrogen bomb and extreme unction
poetry is an oat grain up the arse
poetry is striped pyjamas as constant misunderstanding
poetry is an obstinate mule and a death bell
poetry is paper tissues out of stock and purposeless tipping out of the backpack
poetry is the malodorous sombreness of bird entrails augury
poetry is intermittent showing of ill-suited instruments
poetry is acquiescence to remaining possibilities
poetry is doubt and parody and also when an actor gets stuck during the great monologue
poetry is a significant though barren characteristic of the soul
poetry is the promulgated optimism of Treasury
poetry is never received reward for patience when facing the unavoidable
poetry is the foot and mouth disease of being lost for words
poetry is a balanced and moderate architectural guide to love
poetry is unrecognised nosiness
poetry is announcement of an intended carpet bombing
poetry is a cheering smile from some apocryphal reincarnation
poetry is cheerful rackets and creaking joints
poetry is return into a mouldy sublet
poetry is the radiation sickness of sentences internally torn asunder
poetry is a heart-felt curse of god
poetry is an emptied gas chamber
poetry is the definition of the discernible forced into prime numbers
poetry is the nth dimension of I and You
poetry is the smoked-out fox's lair of remembering
poetry keeps drinking itself senseless and cutting into its own sentences
poetry is black love in a black heart
poetry is dream of the One between the wings of cherubim
poetry is my torn sail my last supper the interrupted line of my footprints