Nina Simone has just died. I'm sorry to see how little she is remembered by the oldies stations; she was a singer with the greatness that seldom happens once in a generation. My favorite song of hers is her cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", but she has a dozen others just as powerful. And at this time especially, we need musicians with her combination of talent & political awareness...

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MARDUK

1.

To do with Rigel
The slow sudden hejira
We belong to like fiery morning sapphire

From Chartres...

I wend raucous breath
My steps an intricate coinage
Echo sphinx
In the chasms of the polyglot morning

Like spilt arterial iron

To give them their beloved razor sigil
Call it the last exodus
Before the gate slams. Never sweven
So fragile
Milky Way rim/ star

Power we leave.; pyramid
He. Autumn's crash now. Receive the gift of drouth
This swift triage
Acid burn from what is known lurch castle
Pall, pilgrim
And utter coincidence
Cantrip words
A planet whose age is now at wise or frost
The browning magnolia

Emerald gaze of basilisk crwth
Smart monkey's on the closure

Gray veil of yearning
Lungfish harness like an alibi
Foolishly clutching the constipated name
Down volvox
Corridors of orpiment
What have you done since you happened here

Wars have come
To bring down sorrow
Grow. My books torn up watch streak the Plenilune
Bones on the terrible tide
Walk the night made fire

Metatron
Tiger whose profile fares Assyrian
I face you iron down evil yang lair

This soft isopleth
Close pent by trembling wisteria
A thing of moments surely
Do pasture
He: away she: i teach syringe grip cobweb

Moonlight shining can't abalone
Dark twin you create
And the hatred is the pearl
Puree snow
On the slippery ramparts of malachite
Want. Take book
Long shadows of early traffic lapping Ghayb
The havoc men do

Walks after them judge. Pungent the badge
Blithe brisk neotheocrat
Fantasizing their immunity
Killing an Arab
In the gallery wall leaning plates of lead
La Messe-Noire
Fox News for invocation
Green gloom iron men baobab
Sliced an ear

Evil rumors for, not; nor meaninglessness
Arrayed divine flying Hakenkreuz
Flaunts commodity
Relationship as all, those lips vermilion
From their drink, it's fate
My ink to want. Debâcle
Bitter tryst--

Mutiny goes vegetarian.
If Rigel polkas
This burning (me) inside is fled, opium
Of the CEOs, a prayer
In stiletto point azure dimness
Swerve we strength
Rain down illusion
Cluster pierce clinic Baghdad
Oncoming windshield's flicker the tube lurch lack

Sprockets Dad
Lent hear Pazuzu streak the freak ace
War dog ice deliquescent

Slab soot rain direction widderguess
Hammurabi slab bereft & lucent bead

Shrieks the Ka
Then Esperantos
High on styrofoam;

The precise Rosicrucian
Eft & perilous anagrammatism
Leads us to a frigid adage:
Feed your head.
Salvage all unknowable,
Mutiny from, & toxic squamous Chartreuse
Avalanche wrench purlieu Baptist free
Such agate

Lanterns receive, plague
And perverse cat madonna
A slag that people
Take. What is it in the fierce green griffin ghost

Begs chaos
Come flay pierce crush bring dust on logic
Crave? A mystery
Mind's grip cannot find to hold, Zugzwang
Perfect cage
Never devised sightless deaf


Sun.: tantamount panic eclipse of Ea
Lurch black cab

I wake to Mokusatsu
Media poisoned beyond Mithridation
This planet where i can only be
Lungfish egg gone bad
Temple falling down crepuscular
And murderous foreclosure

The temple countdown
Poet built rocket to Alpha Centauri
Grip with jade
I can't see--intricate thorn faded

Muezzin's terrible altered significance
Lamps of olive oil
Caught falling we crave muskeg

Crave loot vault
Crave sky god power have/. Irony
Fathoms square

Ariel's truth. Puree of Mirrabooka
We find salvage in dead quartz
Digits our bible
Never peace
Stand within frantic the zymurgy
Dumb to ask the name of this polyester
Dog Itzcuintli
Or raucous spoonerism

Ones i loved now under rubble a
Psychopath grade A
Sent there (sans interjection)
Devised for them metallic cunnilingus

Ash fall baa
And bitter A/C

Face they full of piercings bag
Share the rapture sea./? & sky the Day same gab
Burning tank hulk desert; bulldozer
Desert; rain
Chrome gastropod
Trail colossal crystal amethyst Ubar
Lord of hosts horde of locusts: All grass

Is flesh. Dinosaur mercy
Grease reserves gazelle
Cry in R'lyeh
We do know there are some things alone
We do not know lehua
Desert but acid but there are tenebrous
Too, Krypton
Unknown unknowns the ones (cede)
We don't know we lurch don't know (cede ice)

Faked evidence & bleed at this conjunction
Grope Ouroboros
For caca
The ordinances of the nether dank cad
World desert. are perfect. Zaglossus