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i

remains

an obstinate candle of ignoramy

implacably opposed to the

insult

of placards and canards

of a slickly contented materialism,

mother of tears and trials

and praises to Mammon.

i

remains

absurdly inordimate

and never enamored of

numb proclamations of profiteers and pirates,

a pure pier of paper against electronics,

a filmy fen of flesh against future fossils

frank

and convinced of colors and collages

of colleges incarnate

and knowledge in confidences.

i

create

because i can (dull)

because i must

1

can either conform or create

and

i

don't see the light in the first, nor even heat

only a can of dull.

i

a candle of the fresh

or the foppish, the faded or the fine

frank and colorful

driven rather than disciplined

dizzy pens drawing

dissipating

dissembling

keenly cans of contoured ken.

Do i can do

can done

condone

done

i

i

flicker

but

i

do not

quite

go out.