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ROOTLESS VERB

I: have to stand outside of my mind,
like
A dog : gasping for breath with tongue outsitretched and

Looking carefully for even a used leaf plate
The mind's a silent frozen lake, sinking sinking -
You have to keep a wary eye for a lotus that may be
thrown up

You have to run round and round as if stung by a wasp

Even if it's only a fly.
A bus above
Train below

A bridge in between
These two
Here and hereafter clashing at clarionet speed
you remember the bridge crashing on to •the train's head,

Here's Here
Hereafter's away

The speed's the same
Time's different1
So's tense -·

Train' is long
Tense short
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