▪THE SALAMANDER SPEAKS
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Pallor in the mirror
thirty-six thousand feet
above surface level
'1968'
Anticipates a rise
in air cabin pressure your ears pop with delight
Lift off means lunch lifts up to give voice to vomit
your mouth projects
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Liquid contents inside
a swiftly procured bag
to dispose of with glee
Order a martini
dry gin shaken not stirred
though even Bond James Bond
Required no moment
of reprieve when the light
struck his face his pallor
7
Distinctly unlike green
unlike your sallow face
present in the mirror
Oboe plays concert A
to tune the orchestra
8
Lapsus memoriae
a lapse of memory
as to why I beseech
you to entrust your faith
if you can remember
Lightly shuffling your feet
in slippers on floorboards
not to wake up the dead
As the cemetery
boasts no less than twenty
freshly dug unmarked graves
Revealed by police dogs
hidden beneath your house
what makes a man your age
kill innocent children
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