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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  August, in Resurgence, Above the Men's Room


A splashing harmony was taking my thoughts
where it hoped to uncover the not yet disrobed
in their own trembling risk.  The restroom was empty
and all things inside were lit with the hope

to disrobe what had not yet uncovered.  Modesty
and innocence loitered at the shadow's edge
as all things beside it
commenced what they loved to do:  innocence,

modesty and temptation lounged in shadow
which left us feeling like weak, sudden lovers
commencing to do what we longed to do;
the faucet screamed with anticipation

and harbored the sudden lovers' hands.
A wallpaper spread in associate patterns
and met the faucet with anticipation
of spreading its mildew about.  How deftly

the condom purveyor assayed its protection.
I was moved and drifted through hypnotic lotions
which spread an odor about in a benign way
like fog humming a perpetual reminder.

I was drifting and moved by its hypnotic motions
and the scarred stall door—just often enough
to imagine it and its perpetual sway humming a short tune.
Even as existence spooled unabated and conspicuous

the stall door shut often enough to imagine it
through the fractured harmony of my thoughts—
existence spread unabated and conspicuous
in its own risk; the restroom stayed empty
      except for some flies.



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