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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{fresh air}
  luc simonic


having presumed far too much,
a man stepped on his own
coat-tail as he made peace
with all he had given.

this man has woven factions
of presumptions into
a frost rated camisole
keeping men in women

and warm during the most
fastidious recesses of
a summer solstice - is
another's dead of winter.

men, women, having failed,
slipped into or are the warm
plasma of deride success.
together they drive

to the opposite hemisphere,
where they may find,
drenched in scarlet ooze,
everything this man presumed.


~lds08