Thank you Patrick
L
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Cheers for scrawling!!
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[It being a saintsy sort of day. I've let Elidius out of his coffin
and invited him to say a few words.
Elidius, the patron saint of frothy coffee]
Implausibly, I imagine as I move,
the morning sky mingling with my sullen look.
There was a single time. Disregard it,
now no more than the downs covered in weed
towards the direction of the city in wonderment.
There is no city. Only the deepening water.
Ordered. The edge fractured.
Unthinkably, the last man in the world.
Far removed from personal light. From control
of a new question. Trying to suppress the character.
Persistence. The giving ungiving enters his mouth.
He speaks the sea story pouring into him.
He puddles it, hard-skilled in acts of preservation
untrustworthy depths of fact. The path we took.
Between need and thought, held to by fear, scrawled.
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