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Felix

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                 I

They say a firm numbness grips the body:
        That is homogeneity. Sameness throughout,
        Electrifying the senses and limbs.
The lurch of knowing, unlike most,
        Exactly when you will die.
It is efficient, if successful.

As mysterious as the birthing gasp of first existence,
        Standing at Styx and choosing to swim
        Rather than wait for Charon.


                 II

"Whence Duty? Whence the obligation to persist?"

They are in the suicides.

            When I eat the nourishing atoms,
                     drink the nourishing atoms,
            I remember the sacrifices
                        heroic sacrifices
     gossiped, anathemic sacrifices
                                                      that gird action toward a localized heaven.

For every noose, a Messiah.
April 12, 2010
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