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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{heart of darkness}
  luc simonic


Live and let die; the one who
kills and the one who
loves; feel-good oxytocin – bloodshed;

You becoming sleepy. Fight it
postcoital; Not knowing what
Ash Wednesday is – apparently

It passed many more than 40 days back;
He been fasting; consciously –
a hair-lipped rest; evenings

Alongside his mate Boothe does
Lincoln in under the disco lights.
that moment loving killing;

One – were he to lay again upon
the twin mattress used by the child
enjoying the festival of jump;

The treasured comfort only told
fully by the nervous system
in the extremities – the most

Irregular moment; Cain's wife,
or Esau's. Of how the porter, ripped
bloody from motherly abdomen,

loves his mother; emergent –
emergency. The half-lives
of tolerance, or a rank bezoar.