Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy
Continuations CVII:
Douglas Barbour
Sheila E. Murphy
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Continuations CVII:
how turn or turn away
               that simple easy
to say nothing
on account the cost
deferred yet no deference
               indifference allows
sealed future platform
               terse with easy-to-remember
bullet points
let go all nuance as if
               nothing required
a difference to extract the flow
chart what charred hat
in ring sing or shout a new
               kind of public self
a base meant to stop all thinking
calls to arm new barbarians
               beyond the walls they built themselves
elves sustain the project like
               built-in correction fluid
                              chuffed around basic wins
in lieu of barometric guesswork
               a projected public watches boundaries
                              chiseled by barbarians seeking stoppage
rocks fall rock fills the new emptiness
               carved out of negative space
                              black holes pull the light through
caverns slick with blood or just tears
               of rage sorrow twisted
                              into a new geography of fear
pacing sound within
               earshot                the vernacular pulls
                              carvings from transparent
aging                              twists of normal
               distribution blur the corpus
                              rinsed of tears before new lack
a loss alas no body holds on to
               sense less than sans per
                              or exceptions to what rules
beyond borders sensed as solid walls
               gates closed as minds wont
                              let a new thought in
scepters leave another form
               of grief still on
                              the table a stake is driven
               in to sparta athens
deep border lineage as bewildering
as sensory arrest
warranted but un-guaranteed
incremental awareness shutdown
               a new kind of filibuster
mouths open wide yet nothing
               emerges a heavy breath
               (ing) fetid thoughtrot
ephemera grow wicked
               cool guard dogs with nothing
                              to save                voiceovers
underpaid just mouth the goods
               warrants               out for various unrests
                              for the sake of nothing much
how does untouchable mean in which warped
               hire-archy a rush to mountain
                              topsy-turvy economies
of say watchdogs walls wills
               power(ed) perverted
                              parlayed with all fixes in
attainment unwatched
               red versions vertically
                              arrayed               part will
part fixed desire                to shun
               the mean                from usual roadway
                              en route to the spire
one breath in one breath out
               so slow a high heave
                              of rhetoric into abyss
of reason transformed by a right
               cross doubled down on
                              a t-bonehead butchery
pulse                tentative reveals
               the present tense constant
season formed                double bass
                              low point transitive
               the right time                placed
within earshot of ensemble
hearts raised in song or tune
d in to something like
               a harmony (k)not heard
fit to be t(r)ied a side
               by side tap dance
               tripped into trapped into tripe
unity                does not                harm
               sensory                scansion opens
the trap                to yield
               surprising richness
                              a flow-through
                              something to abide
withy what s wanted but
wanting waning
               a shaming moment
airy nothing s melee
               speech spat
               sputtering engine falter
alterations make the dress
               not puttering from shop
                              to shop                leeward
a secondary antonym for
               happy is divided
                              (t)hereby fallen
ad dress nausea m aches mere
               speech suffer ever greater loss
memory says history stays
               boxed away hidden then
               there on a s(h)elf
                              imposed upon
utmost leveling of historical
               renditions                poses as
                              truth in boxes put away
as if unseen grief
               meant stashing means
                              certain removal
enter the archives and burn
               maybe turn toward
off license to kill one
               more resolution all resolve
gone into the whirled
               off whitewash
till the oil solve resolve
               wash wards off white
                              one way
baggage no way entry
               works                no one
                              works                nothing
her or there upon
               what argument for or a
               gain st all reason
able to dig ever deeper
               holes in ground less
               rhetoric of savage re turns
age brings depth or
               repetition witness
                              holes in this yard
defining where (not)
               to walk                thereby
                              stalling the proceedings
                              preceding the stalling
               makes for good bad
relations to all wheres
               and here to fors
cant told each single lack
               of honesty so loud now
hearing trumps sense
               of prosperous accounting
               that pinpoints incremental
               cover taking
               poise be held
                              from be yond
nothing holds over yonder wall
               harmony slide into wails
played out into a moil
               of angers unaimed
unnamed so many strings
               attached to what dark whom
monetize regardless
               of the wailing                (gerunds
weigh nothing meandering
               as they do through
clouds of gravity
               darkening the unpaved spaces
traces of too much weight of
gravy train for long distance
               gain the winners circle
shrinking economies sabotaged
               always from within
                              those streets with no shame
increasing distances convey
               trace elements unalloyed
                              wrinkling comics
highlight hamster wheels
               poor economic news
                              encircling vested sabotage
Douglas Barbour
Sheila E. Murphy