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alert turnabout Timorese
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flicker monastic inéquity-requital fóreigner-enactment
toast nótion-counter ASCII fortune loris lordosis
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laboratory victim metonymic strait safehouse mix
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paper sapience odds
grow sac melography metaphor axial
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summarized eightfold share appearances dance endure
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into the light no real self
persist in that union forever
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zeal increasingly wary of slogans Dallas reforms television
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rationing purity earlier petrol fumes cue now-it's-wórse hurt everything'll come
despised difficulties doubt
not in social prop áptitude-depict
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sentence conditions abuses admit basically fearfully
armed economist distant enthusiasm dense impossible town
improve eclectic witness latest fuse hula radio map pole they hold sanctions imposed on
violator loch installations
optimistic place resolve shéd-jewel beat
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involved interlocutor confident rich wínter-par stucco
virtually key decision slake discovery repudiate a long way off
influx of likely condemn hostile application ripening justice labor remainder integral Münster
reminder provisional
meaningful change largely invited observers
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flagpole valiant local Midol pressure immer-adorátion pasture
selfish figures cancel leísure-potential méssed-up plants
how well government harvest Albania probe across the Balkan state chunnel critiques support
foreseeable sea
foreseeable Hague flare competition
Caesural spaces = durations of silence and/or prolongations of
final phonemes or syllables:
4 letter spaces [ ] = 1 unstressed syllable;
8 letter spaces [ ] = 1 stressed syllable or beat; 16 letter
spaces [ ] = 2 beats;
none occurs between typographical lines; breath pauses at verse-line
endings ad lib.
Nonorthographic acute accents indicate stresses, not vowel qualities. Each hyphenated compound is read as one extended word: somewhat more rapidly than other words but not hurried. [ - ] indicates a slowed-down compound (each member, one beat). Indented typographical lines continue verse lines begun above them.
From the series "154 Forties," published in 20 Forties by Zasterle Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Jackson Mac Low. Reprinted with permission.