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  • A PLACE OF REPENTANCE


     
     
    With myself I can only be part, trying to find the particles of the whole, 
    scattered around me at fateful moments! Humiliation of souls, 
    I began to laugh, and the nursery flowed like a finished memory. 
    But it was school that taught me most of all: To survive with fear, to survive 
    Constant alertness, against the snarling claws of industrious beasts. 
     
    And I can't even say that I'm the only one who's ever been broken. 
    Has any but me mourned the state, the cross-suffering, of the Son of Mercy? Doubt- 
    I have shivered with crocodile's droppings through those days, if I enter the halls of my dreams. 
    ...of my dreams: I must have been a child again, who once loved Turkish honey, gu- 
    and toffee, and fudge - deep down, it's just bone-crunching humiliation 
     
    Outside my spat cheek my shoe-soled front kicks the ancient front of vengeance 
    of ancient satisfaction. And more doubtful, more hopeless is the unknown; the sequel! 
    My morality is an unsalable relic! I have been lucky, and just in wrong sufferings: 
    Lives have been pinched by Nemesis' fate: lost compliments, romantic 
     
    sickness, sickness, bone-pain, all the carrion of conscience survives. 
    I've said it all: a decision, a decision, a decision, a decision, a decision, a decision, a decision, a decision. 
    A kiss-esky decision brought me to the ground, But quite, - in that fateful moment! 
    I should have taken revenge! - I was just dipped in an iron fist, 
    In the flushing catacombs of the toilet, And a goodly fatherly slap, too! - The 
    The result was substantial, a ghost-recognition crawling in rooms. Here I am, and yet 
    with myself I can only be part!
     


     

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