Another day of slant rain that comes in sheets and obliterates the landscape for minutes of time and yet there are spaces between through which one can almost see a body or two, tucked in, refusing day's advance, coiled under a comforter, like delayed half-rhymes in a love-duetsweet banter before the dead reckoning, the friar delivering his liquor that yields the likeness of shrunk death for two-and-forty hours, from which like a sprung rhythm the youthful one will spring up again ... if only. The day is like a Guthrie production that wants to be high art but can't quite kick-start itself out of malaise, so it kicks around the manse, waiting for funding and the producer's say-so he thinks it'd play better as an off-Broadway show, risqu, that's just made its way uptown to where the lay crowd hangs out, and keeps its clothes onbut never mind. The rain's washed over the lake and hills and away it goes. The lake and hills remain. I'll need to send the lady away, buckle my buckle, and buckle down, refrain from playing with language and other things just for thrills, or frills, and grill myself or my environment with the sorts of questions that lead to an intent, as intent appears to lead to meaning, and meaning to meat, and meat's the matter, and matter's an end.
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