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HOW ART THOU FALLEN

Ben Passikoff

Flushing, NY




HOW ART THOU FALLEN

Abstinence makes the heart go longer,
he said, assaulting the unready air
from forty architechtured stories up,
while greenly-golden processors window-watched
in wordy horror while his only body,
flare-suited,tie-dots flying, and unshoed,
predestinated to his final sidewalk.
Some eagles interestedly roof-resting
thought him a new dingle bird (their language)
until the final plop.
Two Tokyo tourists
suitably sexed, ejected in praiseworthy harmony
Macdonaldburgers medium-rare (but rapid)
on eying the parti-colored end of air whoosh,
componented of various masked and mashed
miseries. Enough remained to tomb him,
but his last suit did not really fit.

Ben Passikoff
Flushing, NY

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