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ASCENT TO OLD SOLOMON
I took a walk up the mountain yesterday To visit Old Solomon in his black cube cabin Hidden under leaves and canopies of sky I was tested on my way by jumping rocks And divebombing horseflies and sunbeam spears Tossed from their source eight minutes ago To catch my vessel right where it would be…
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ESCHATON
The eschaton was born from a microscopic holeIn the recoiling ground of paradiseWhere the once-bitten apple struck it,Black seed of destruction to come,Pregnant mother of hope.The children of men shrunk backFrom this riot of the godsThey erected towers to plug the gapAnd paved the latitudes and longitudes,But the divisions only widened and spreadRaining down from…