The last page

A statue’s story draped
Across the soldier’s fat nape. 
Lousy with me. Can I call 
Row boats on ship seas?
We started the damnation of . . . 
Nay! Shun! And Scorn!
The pilgrim’s progress (the 
In a copper dress) Hail
Thy version and thy sack
Of rice. The penance, 
The pound, the hunchback’s 
Spy. Nail the legs 
To the floor and shoot the whore. 
The sheep keep bleating 
The wound seething 
Festering moles steering 
Fallen crews suffer eyeing 
In darkness. 
Loose sulfur 
Drying in sparkles. 
Exposing thy 
and thou explosion. 
Master, bait the sun 
In this marred age 
With the lunar blind bull.
Straight into outer rage space. 
Mark this the last page.
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