In darksome advantage, nightmarish advance, the mysterious figure, imminent, cloaked and uncommon, soggy when crunchy was expected, sought me, timelessly chased me, beckoning with moment and meaning, across deserts and desolations, thru nights and darker nights, amidst starless exhaust and the crumbs of commodity, till finally, as all suns went dark, all sons of the trenchant fathering, the wasted clock tower moaning one last peel, and terror could only be semaphore and true, like budget cuts and debt ceiling, the figure caught me, stopped me, a father of invoice and remit now, the sepulchral voice of ghostly dark nuance, gaggingly ghastly, a scram and depopulation like a thousand wobbling screams tho silent as a toad's grave, towering over me, an in opportune skyscraper in colloquy with destitution, with jet black eyes and noisome licorice abatement, bony skeletal hand extended towards me, j'accuse and oh my god, holding, proffering, like the most last of last rites, there before me, pale and wraithlike, the hand’s burden, a pair of socks. Shee-it, I had forgotten my socks!
The work becomes chiding of sunlight. The work is elegy and shaded. The principle ciphers as a god, in the way transience is purpose. Transience works this brief, ending fields, making trees concern. The hell of halting midway identifies the work of burning thru. Forever makes a sign. Sign makes worthy. Indeed the tramp of feet forward concludes any sentences but suggests more. Long sentences, stupid words. The caroling heard by Dante, brilliantine remorse for a better tide. The long road up from down, and turned around. The work then becomes the work now, as stained glass similitude. Anxious in the class structure of catastrophe, the baying song over all. Nothing to do but be done. Ruskin gave you papers to remind you. Slow battering concedes the earth in time. Time being functional and oblique. The worker inside sees the nation by exhalation. Transitive connection sports of culture. The class that ends becomes the class that begins, both left and right.
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