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in the Jordan Ben Wilensky |
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Before I sleep I cap the coming day by shaping words into possibilities. I operate early in the morning so it's time to cover up the cage and hood the parrot silence my dissent. Excesses and excuses non-canonical explorations are dumped into a pot of bubbling plaster where they harden into stone. When I'm up and ready for monastic duties I take an ax and split my skull then pick on through a mass of chipped rock. Endings are never secure but I eagerly engage. |
Frequently visuals are overwrought and over ripe especially when ravens rattattattatt into a dead cow's eye. I simply dig a hole and bury the week's work. But Lord so many moments of pure delight when I'm Johnny in the Jordan stripped to my skin mining gold inside the rubble. ____ Ben Wilensky lives in Rockaway Park, New York. 
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