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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{lesions at cerebellum}
  luc simonic


It's an Amistad upstairs;
researchers discover again
however many out of thousands

Absorb this sordid foghorn chatter
like demons echoing off Centre Court
on-serve All England Club

Overheard from the hill; Lucky
to be left stranded; Lucky her mum
survived those voracious V2's.

Here they call her "Baby Boomer",
there this seems rude
or quite insensitive. Meanwhile

All her friends, one-by-one,
drop their final egg - afterwhich
they each ironically

pine for "just one more"
after a lifetime of screaming;
"stop the bleeding!".

But this is much more serious -
Giving ANYONE pause. This is
the balance of life lacking

the proper feelings below
the waist. This requires
a complete repurposing
of the fingers, the hands,
the lips, the look,
the hope of imagination.