"Consciousness"

"Consciousness"

"Consciousness"

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Nov. 17 2009 7:07 AM

"Consciousness"

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Sack of rocks we drag.
Telescope dish turning.

Engine-hum in back
Alleys where all night

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Trucks idle their load,
Whomever the Devil

Would destroy … how
Does that saying go?

Can we not silence
It even half an hour:

Slip off our headset,
Forget the last ship's

Tinny SOS, break out
Champagne and party.

Palace of a thousand
Lamps left burning

Far below the waves.
… he first makes wise.

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