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Passion Eddy  

Book two of impromptu trilogy.

  Time, Filmed as a Western


Time unchanging and time suddenly-memorial
lean against the porch rail and share a beer.

Satisfaction is a tent camp of hard looks
which still complies with the unshaven present;

it swirls behind town yet staggers ahead
of the excited yellow cottonwood and grimaces

with its misplaced prediliction.  Are these
barflies that fall just short of the river's edge

and a fictitious time?  Their thick-bottom glasses
amuse us as do the younger men who fix themselves

with a lamentable present—who could stop
long enough to disarm them, as they're so often
    a good distance
      away.



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