710
bio note 
or 
the via negativa made new every day  
at my greatest extent 
I was an empire 
           inter galactic 
there wasn't the fish to translate me 
I didn't have to go anywhere 
tribute was brought 
some plantinum asteroid 
would have parked overnight 
you couldn't help finding Planet X
then and of course lay claim
with prominent teat when roused 
so rub
you just wished 
then nothing to it 
any star might fall 
spring moist aflame 
and all in bud
all would eventually 
we had time in those days 
careless with showers 
shone with the sun 
I was reading the daily entrails 
actually I was a plume 
don't worry 
there was one of me 
in every packet of cornflakes 
you could stretch the thing out 
any direction
they were all into it then 
once I was erupting 
pall of me
and what a bellow!
all trumpet and rear 
laid dinosaur eggs
chased skirt
and I hatched out 
delight of flight 
rose 
from ashes and dust 
and so come again
you could burn just trying to get around me 
everyone would nod then 
all as of a mind 
triumphal arches, keys to the shop 
drum marches in the glory days 
and they'd carry my image across 
sturdy, determined 
all policy, grave - 
everyone knew where they were going 
some fife and they followed 
all into the mountain
and then I wore no clothes 
they'd lick me all over 
at sayso - the dogs 
so see this little sheep's face - dumb 
prise open the eyes of the fish 
you could all join in - a must 
that was me just fishing 
but isn't just the facts catch up
or even just a quiet ponder 
?
cicada clung 
wise to a saw 
like afternoon all summer 
that's when I'm writing it now 
and what have I done recently? 
wild animals in the house 
mainly I'm where you won't see of late 
how I drift like a cloud all the day
 
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