Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy
Continuations CIII
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Continuations CIII
ruptured readings raid sense a lone
               figure factors endings unsought
redacted memories mythologized
               matter not mater
               ialized darkness
                              from which all philosophy depends
logic foretells terabytes of
               darkness               figures drawn
                              as pendants        facts
                                             alone ’though gathered
material       to wit(ness)
               would-be wisdom
wrought ironed out or
               away sheet blank as a wall
                              between any two thoughts
consecutive executive orders
               trickle down information
               algorithms sent awry
arrhythmia shifts spaces between
               endpoints               the iron will
                              of steadfast thinkers
views ahead of time
               uncalculated order
                              in hopes of yield
to what the song remains
               or the song’s remains
that down beat beaten into
               now shares ponzi
               schematics pyramid
               ordering future ‘guaranteed’
lament               shucks beat
               as down time shapes
                              a scheme for vaulting
new domain beyond the elders
               made for prime (times two)
                              the heft of which might last
might lasts a shoehorned right enforced
               enlarging footprint hot air
                              word play gave no one
the do re me nobody knew them
               when they found an out
                              reach for the scars
blood still vivid
               present tense mind
                              spawns constant presence
from stains               remains
               on other
wise smooth sur face                  forced to distortion
a cutting phrase phase
               out white noise feedback
repeat (repeat) this torte
               levers legality past any sound
               barrier to non-elect assumption
                              raised up in ruptured ecstasy
hazing worsens gloom of non-
               acceptance by the middle
                              ground to pulp               a radio announcer
induced apologies from a funder
               for not selecting average youth
                              within presumed legal parameters
presumptions reign a fall
               safe solution to unintended cons
               unquestioned refusals
uninquiring minds want their no
               radio telescopes the ranting
               railing out of town
               sequence equals quest
fused with the stated
               rim                  &nbgsp      shot to hellacious
scope of rant               slanted
to derail                the mind
                              about to ask
a bout to task all comers (or
               is that tax all
corners covered covert
               as all get out
               of fail safe housed
                              inquiries imploded
axes already ground       around
                issue failure      verge on
                              con       tra (la) summa cum
laude   overt signs of
               skin       flinty
                              placations       yield just whimpers
slivers of salvation salivation for
ignorance gained hanged
               juries where just one
question leads astray such
               a knock on inquiry
               intelligence quashed sense
tuppence for another’s thoughts
               injurious or not               the quest
               for stray-be-limber     innocence
where ignorance might ply
                              redaction on the glimmer
of high hanging fruit
blacked out blocked off
blink fast first thought
               past thought thinking
inside the tox icky influence
               impels a slimy futures market
betting high and selling low
               or dropping out               while lanky soldiers
bred shot put               fire off unknowns
                              as if to even the non-score
                                             for those yet not met
captaining with washed hands
                              in sands stands
               still against all careful thought
               full of it as was is
what it always might become if left
               to rust no rest for
               the wikipediaed unediting
a text once liked               still sharing
               gains                  pressed
                              into history distinct from
rust               wrested from
               shifty might                   all wiki-ed up
                              and giddy as they come
too many collaborators spoil the bought
               a forced volunteerism / labor
                              to bring forth a louse
               lackwit litigations a kind
               of installed contagion
faulty footnotes for the famed (or famished)
in the stalls reside the limitations
               thin walls between each volunteer
                              resisting lackadaisical fame
as if homework had a cyst
               on had to view and know and feel
                              forthcoming tags a kind of famine
foaming at the mouth
               of a river of tears tears
landscape apart parts
               forest from trees or vice
versed well in forgetting all
               promises artless dodgers work
mise-en-scene derives from
               scope funneled into
                              work dodged for a while
rive gauche art               ill-gotten
               treasonous verse               given
                              by mouth according to prescription
pre script or pro script on a role
               play it for the sobs
remember prayers as out
raging against the party machined
excuses wont work want working
               ethics squ(n)d(erred)
laying down        excuses
                 zilch     the pair
                              of chinos           (oh, well)
rays of some lit momentary
               play     remainders what was
                              once left
wants left behind demands right
               demands all a solid
state solution slow dissolve
               fast fade reputations made
               onscreen on screeds
               thrown away on a whim
faddish reps turn staid
               we row alongside
                              figurative screenshots
reading “him and her”
as nominative while wincing
               into dissolution