by Rory Strong and D. Beveridge
The warning as follows is only barely tongue in cheek:
do not attempt to arrest, interrupt or otherwise interfere with this volcano:
as a pinecone waits for the fire: to go to seed: &
waiting for Christ we’re refreshing our email:
because it is only a matter of time before hell comes to you: or through you:
The sun slowly carving the shape of the day:
we’ve sailed at the best time of the tides:
a metaphor for work: followed by another:
if only we can squeeze through the Strait of Hormuz:
tighter than a scared shut asshole:
Not only obscenity was the issue: declaring:
Now that shriveled pear is my scrotum: the crowd of us:
sailors for the sake of it: stormwalls and seagrass:
North: we slip into psychosis like sheets of ice:
sledding off the melting ‘berg: though:
But one or both of us speak only for the one or both of us:
the torpedomen forward on the boat: can smell us mollifying:
orders on behalf of a mystery Captain: to kill:
the crab of justice: dragged forward, still slouching:
a birth pang: its echo: and Quick Quiet:
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Rory Strong and D. Beveridge lived together in Long Beach, CA. This is their first collaboration. Both of their websites are dead, but may not be in the future: www.dbeveridge.com / www.roryory.net.
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