Artchil Daug Poems

The rocket of a ball
that passed through before
her eyes, antedated eyes,
was as fast as a bullet
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Three dogs were running amok
in the middle of the town
when a fire broke out like
a tidal wave, swallowing
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The night arrived, bringing the voices of unborn children in the form of a demon disturbing the peace of slumber with a sulfuric whisper, 'I bless thee, O venerable child, thou art alpha and omega, the eternal apocalypse, the child of evolution, yet an anomaly of equations, without purpose, without the mechanistic limits of the time arrow, '
the demon showed me a world in the river of sorrow, 'see the madness thou species brought,
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I stopped receiving awards,
the moment receiving ended
a Rubik's cube, an almost unending
series of bad solutions to
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The pale face of a portrait, keeping
still, everyone looses a color
in every life-affirming music constructed
from the notes and lines of the unknown,
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Where did his feet go,
walking, the dreaded steps
of the night watchman,
turning the flashlight
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I AM
the writings on the wall,
not that kind of writing,
a vandalism, chalk on
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They told me to stop me from loving you
that in their scaffold I must live a lie
and chain me with the calling of a few
to have me in line and for you to cry.
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The heavens are looking at me with fire
in the echoing heat of Hephaestus;
I bowed… despair to the one with the lyre,
shackles to the wings of this Pegasus
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I thought of love, and yet no love from thee
the cold pat of the sea on this sad coast,
with pebbles resembling broken mem'ries
this glass that shatter with no form to boast.
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