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Sharp Knife

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I hide in a celom of a Langur when it sleeps, In the shadow of a burl at the door of a temple, I - a knotted clunker rolling ever so slowly In the corner of the brotherhood of wreck, I - holed up as a squirrel in the barrel Of a hunter’s rusty shot-gun The one without a shell. The one no one wants to touch! I have been dusting away under a fallen church bell. A whiz of an incoming pendulum Rives and cleaves all the past Moons And any pollen in the moonlight That may impregnate her before my eyes Unwell thoughts of an unwell being, said he Who has been recommended to heal me Through this virtual box in the circus of life I sure hear, and I sure work my tongue Along the blade - a sharp knife!

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