Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Seventeen
Summer 2008
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Still Come About from Beasts
Ray Succre

Still come about from beasts, and hymned
at their sides, I and else, the upright scuts
are the finer decay of the resolute.
We all slop wakeward with heads in February
and fertile crests.

In hindsight, we’ve all met.

I think I met death in the prologue.
This showed me to suck my thumb and ask much.
My times: Other perfunction under milk.
My viewers: Their sequential dismay.

Now? Anymore? Here?
Ask the next.  The reader pays a more piercing
attention than what any ambient chronologist
can bleed down.

The summary is facet, compiled, inhumanly clear,
and still come about from beasts.

About Ray Succre

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