THE COMPLETE BALLAD gathers in
its variants, garnering
wreaths and gurnings from opposing corners;
crooners at variance overlay their richness,
glitches, each tenor/timbre a hiccup
in wound-forward time; "best of" recoups
aberrant spools ejected from the back
of skidding lorry, spoor of lost contralto
frittered across relentless carriageways.
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