Lawrence Upton

 

Portrait


She’ll make you rattle.
She’ll take your knowledge down
to a source of realisation
and cut it; leaving each client
slowing; quivering behind it, words.
She loves the dead,
talking with shadowy eyes
in anger for the living,
a flexible slaughter system
for undesirable tendentiousness.
She takes a witness
and each ends the memory,
hollows in wounds infilled
by splintery ashes from collegiate opinion.
She fakes change to everything.
She breaks open each corpus
till even thought is spare, smoothing
the surface of each outlook
and making concrete with precision
to build within each one a madhouse.



 


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