David Prater (Netherlands/Australia): "A821.4"
A821.4
that place where we all someday hope to die
or rot at least (our skins like autumn leaves
in solidarity with those whose fame exceeds
our own (no matter now this system lets us
obscure the vain & support the humbled the
catalogue that protects that gives each of us
some space in which to rest canonised alone
awaiting some three miracles a beatification
in that heavenly curriculum (of ars poetica,
each brailled punchcard returned by hand to
its vacuum-sealed drawer (the airs condition
interpret you (guard against that lonely dew
© David Prater 2008
that place where we all someday hope to die
or rot at least (our skins like autumn leaves
in solidarity with those whose fame exceeds
our own (no matter now this system lets us
obscure the vain & support the humbled the
catalogue that protects that gives each of us
some space in which to rest canonised alone
awaiting some three miracles a beatification
in that heavenly curriculum (of ars poetica,
each brailled punchcard returned by hand to
its vacuum-sealed drawer (the airs condition
interpret you (guard against that lonely dew
© David Prater 2008
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