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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  The Evening Light Brightening the Face of a Dancehall


Often peculiar and rough, sometimes dutifully respectful, what
largely remains its heir and the apparent one to continue

this heartfelt quest toward a sensual anticipation
and climax of life's irrefutable banquet is, strangely,

that skinny kid standing sullenly outside a dancehall
from which sound has yet to issue.  He is joined

by others with the same, muddled haircut and by small-
breasted girls whose small blouses suggest things
      altogether
incorporate from their physical sums.  Something
surely intrinsic seems revealed only to the chosen few

while the rest are content to merely be a piece of it,
spilling at dawn into rain, snow, inclement humidity,
      wherever lassitude happens to find them.



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