of the 60

[Alan Sondheim]

of the 60

of the beginning and the beginning.
   i am condemned.
in a space the lynched body twists.
in a space of 60 years it is here, now.
nothing changes "in a space of the 60."
muscle cells subject to tensor calculus.
that's nothing as well.
the tongue is torn from the root, the differend
which rends nothing into nothing.
   i would rather die than listen again to the murmur.
it is of the world and the world's children.
it is always this child and in this world.
this world is the gateway to nothing or to slaughter,
or to lynching, or to muscle, the muscular.
or this world is the gate of the 60 or the slaughter.
auschwitz later almost by the span of a man or woman,
lyric poetry rose from certain strength, and nothing,
only to sink in the soil of the root.


  this is of the ancient of times
  of english within the structure of the lao
   i will return this to another time when lao
   i will insert this within the lao
   i will learn what is the lao and to study the lao
  the lao is perfect perfection of the lao and of the lao
  within the law of this of the escape

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