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POETRY

BY JACK PURCELL

 Hell Bent For Santa Fe

Desert Emergency Survival Basics

The Lost Adams Diggings

Poetry of the New Old West

                          

Pendulum star

Swings to and fro

While maggot-earth

Digests his legions

Tick tock

Tick tock

 

Minute-hand moon

Sucks tick tock tides

Through Paleozoic hours

Quaternary days

Pleistocene weeks

Tick tock

Tick tock

 

Sub-microscopic

Parasites

Scurry flourish

Scratch peel

Posture

And rot

Tick tock

Tick tock

 

Pendulum star

Swings to and fro.

Minute-hand moon

Sucks tick tock tides

Maggot-earth digests

Tick tock

Tick tock

Copyright©2003 Jack Purcell

 

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03/20/2005