Book of Isaac, The. Aidan Semmens

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       seem to recognise that part of the workers

       a parable is told of warring tribes:

       here it is, finally got here, the best flour!

       ah, pessimist, you do not know the people

       for the passéists between we, great Apollo

       we threw downward from tsar & kow-tow to these

       number me the things that have not yet been

       at 3.15 soldiers, investigators & officials

       pursuant to the instructions of Superintendent Offley

       there are differences between countries in the world of multiple classes

       a new economic policy & many

       I no longer believe in the accuracy of my own

       greasy light of the cellar steps, sweat

       at last it has come to this: bread, dust, the artillery

       there is the cool consolation where as for me

       but as the flesh fell from his face

       blindly believing concrete truths, absolute & release

       never rise the dreamers on desires of the fathers

       that she came to me in my captivity

       each morning I go down to breakfast hoping

       it is not breaks the second instruction

       long noble massage of hands brow

       the bone is pulled out, the eye which is dented atrophies,

       & when I had made an end of speaking these words

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      this Esdras went up from Babylon as a scribe

      & they feasted with instruments of music & of gladness

      & roasted the Passover with fire as appertaineth

      & such a Passover was not kept in Israel since

      the time of the prophet Samuel; as for the house

      of the Lord they burnt it, & brake down the walls of Jerusalem

      & set fire upon her towers, now if this city

      & the walls thereof be re-made they will also rebel

      against kings for ye have defiled your hands with blood

      the evil is sown but the destruction is not yet come

      & we are not better than they that there did die

      they that dwell upon the earth may understand nothing

      & as for the truth it endureth as is always strong

      for the world has lost his youth & the times wax old

      bent writing, assiduous pen in hand,

      beard unknowing as mine, a man

      dead decades before underlies

      by one eighth my genesis

      in a twilight era from rabbinical composition

      under secular thought logic

      to weigh the weight of fire

      pioneer of mill-ground clothworkers

      farmers in a barrier of road escape

      from hard land sweaty life, heretic

      suffers no holy writ gladly

      in vernacular of old places, the family left

      to control of the secret police & he returns

      pose, the unknowable, Minsk 1907

      radicalism is not your mistake

      your tub is a poison & the stink of later

      is very deep dark & all unseen

      the name of a flower is the name

      of something else, respected citizens

      First Guild merchant of

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