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RICI ROECKER

BURNT OFFERINGS

I.
a tiny egg:sperm
quenching my thirst with amnion
and kicking too hard
JlI!f liquid globe world broke

breezes finger up my sou1
groping for a part of :me that isn It so drained

but they must
flee the drought

parents love and turn it back fluid
home was a womb,
had to swim the boundary of blood
and allow the canjnes to savor the life

FILM CLIP I.

the footsteps of chi.ldhtXld
JDelt into yesterdays;
yesteryears freeze
to becOIIephoto album pages
that ccumot be flipped backwards
they've prepared
a noose of thorns

II.

I breathe the enjoyment of any whore' s
openings
stuffing got into her box
downing-red delights that waltz in my head

a decaying poet' s penis seeks a virgin sou1
leaving the insanity of the Lonely Shore

first l.ove kissed my eyelids

~ent1y closed

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