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Meeting Mark E Smith

By ralph

Sun, 09 Jun 2013
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Electric Wakefield night
where the room pulses
primal

We dart the ceiling
as if swallows
to your amazon

then we fall

later on a settee
you rise
we embrace

leaving us for
other birds.

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