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Another Reluctance.

"99 dróttkvaett"

1.
fuligin farce · foist halcyon
impossible perch · & permanent blindfold
the way wanting · for a world's gain
not new missive
fall of the year
& the bard pensive

2.
Parnassus nard · not found here
what the sea keeps · is soon told
our rites falter · our robot
made credentials · shrivel up

3.
   wipe dew off the glass
on all the car windows · glare
   peeps between the trees

down the street a squirrel frolics
weaving around a straight line

Pascal's Triangle poems.

One time i was in an antique mall, & i found the most perfect WW2 bomber jacket--worn, creased, frayed, patched, & not entirely cleaned of the dust of decades. It was even in my price range (barely). But at last i decided not to get it. I hadn't experienced enough: i didn't deserve to wear a jacket like that.

"A visionary adolescent from Sinus Iridum by the name of Narcissus, guided by the giant tortoise Alfa Omega, invisible to everybody but him, from time to time is transported to the said parallel world where he populates a grand hall with statues and sculpture ensembles fashioned from his own excrement."