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Adrian Lurssen

Dear with Extremes of Thirst and Pain

14 December 2007
Vol. 7, No. 4
poetry, collaboration

First eyelids and lips are closed, then open. Now, open eyes appear unseeing. A kind of dreaming.

For thousands of years people have carried their faces this way, one by one, only on their heads.



Under these conditions nothing is harder to control than reason. You babble without speaking,

march into the desert without water. We will die tomorrow, the day after at the latest.

Fourth Song of the Child Soldiers

Case of ditto for eating meat.

Copper rings for arms and

Above the knee. Arm rings

Made from Elephant's teeth.

Ditto ditto for eating meat.

First Song of the Child Soldiers

23 October 2007
Vol. 7, No. 3
poetry

Here lies a bicycle. Here lies

A shoe. Here sand or ash or

Fingertips and from your Mama

Comes a tune; sound like water…

from above

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4
poetry

or you may arrive by helicopter


(a way to kiss over paperwork)

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