99.
Kiu tamen estas
Crystal Bridges, Caring Bridge, crystal radio
blinda en cxi tiu vivo, tiu
gryffygryffygryffs
estas ankaw blinda en
drink razor wine · from cobweb goblet
la vivo venonta,
angry pilgrim · purblind child
kaj li vagados malproksimen,
SEZGA'O SKIVISKA
for de la vojo
VI LE BA'O VOLCEDRA
evolve genie · tsar of bargains
oboe dord · ail iris
ease sore cup · puce roses
Æsir Iliad · rodeo Bosnia
grab for a stein · Negev love

ZASTI FA LENU MROBI'O
.IJI'A ZASTI FA LE MAKFYLARCU

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(here ends Spaceship to Pluto)

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17:72 Whoso is blind here will be blind in the Hereafter, and yet further from the road.
Lojban: Asperger-detector (though ZILSELJIKPRE is more exact than SEZGA'O);
in the defunct flying-era;
Death exists, & so does Magic.

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    98.
Of course we have
a purpose our pur
pose is to undo
the harm we have
caused in becoming
who we are
2 mothers 2 children
stranded on the median strip
stormclouds & sunshine
bare trees, warm air
not a good idea crossing here
not a good idea
to talk on the phone while driving
or try to write a poem
involving counting syllables

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    97.
La suno kaj la luno
savant bane airing
sekvas siajn vojojn
Why do i need
law mezuro
to provide a birthday?

said to contain code written by
as if Gemstone file
foggy school zone
the cluster of pinkgold streetlights
over the ravine of the deluxe underpass
& the tufted damp air an inbetween color
less real to me than a song

reading a paperback
with cloth gloves
LO SE DJUNO BEZI'O

talaria so ruby
Plutonian shore, only
with a tug passing lunar

this chryselephantine curse
the fountain's ecstatic curse
next to, seems remotely lunar

in Cracker Jacks a ruby
breaks a bicuspid, only
it isn't closure only

in harsh light of the ruby
i tasted again my curse
which turns solar to lunar

lunatics call black lunar
& deem dark's blessing its curse
i trace these deaths with only
one viridian ruby

rip down all hate ice cream

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55:5 The sun an the moon are made punctual.
Lojban: that which is known to no one (=Mystery)
The last line is a misheard quote from "My Back Pages" by Bob Dylan.

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    96.
the part of the ride that's the dark ascent
sed Ia ne awskultis, Li
like farcical fingers
elprenanta la balonon
like faint gestures

kaj remetanta gxin,
what are we to make of this
tute kontente...
extremity, confounded, complete,

excellent as this beginning?
old music
sleepdep
newly ruined roads
the anamorphic screever stands
abstain raven gain
wodwo brew
palindrome explained
palindrome explained
ethanol pours in
newly ruined roads
queen hesitates, cask claws, leaf
horse flesh
confidence man

cherry blossom

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Some or all of the E-o here is from Winnie the Pooh.

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    95.
a cut so fine i cannot see it
a catastrophic ending to that fine life

cerulean, cerulean
let the bombs fall

clathrate gun
our henna pistol easter

certe ili komplotas,
mutiny they terrible want
sed ankaw Mi komplotas

ice purlieu and terrible did
kontraw ili, tial vi
sleepwalkers ice cat left

konsentu tempon al la
magenta anodized aluminum cup
miskredantoj, lasu

avalanche lungfish up grip want
ili iomete en pace
becoming rounder on the bottom

hasten ruin pool
making nights like existence
tarry a little longer in the counting

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86:15-17 Lo! they plot a plot (against thee, O Muhammed)/ And I plot a plot (against them)./ So give a respite to the disbelievers. Deal thou gently with them for a while.

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    94.
venus & crescent & a plane
to the drumbeat of war always war
the only story we know or ever heard
as children heroes & villains
& the white hats win in the end
the long slide into silence
dark blurs in the pale moonlight
nine years getting there
1e3 c5 2Ke2 Nc6 3Ke3
a plusher notion
a harsher thought

another nil opus
determined to live forever

haunters in loop
intersected by an eye

iron houseplant
i water with ash

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though 1e4 makes more chess sense, perhaps 1e3 is the better poem

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    93.
the smell of dead things
at the desk where i write
banded shadows in the school zone
tick off the stations of this voyage
above me that abstract & unreal
nation unravels
& the roads crumble
into not-roads
& we will still use the name
long after anyone can tell
& what we are living through now
may by then be called
syllables
that fall amidst our speech unbeknownst
i speak them
to myself silently
as the sun comes up
over the highway bridge so full
of commuters

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    92.
the touching story
of a middleclass white family
that saves
one of the following
a crippled puppy a whale an African American
child a homeless man
with a hidden talent
& all the while
the rest of their kind
being destroyed
not by malice but by thoughtlessness
the clearest
underwater view yet
the hospice web page
i must choose a password for

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    91.
the past never captured in a painting
only another solitude
the taste of black tea
the wanting to find what you lost
another cardboard box
Cxe Allah estas la montrilo de la vojo.
in the unfolding story
Inter ili estas iuj, kiuj devojigas. Se Li volus,
Li montrus al vi cxiuj la vojon.
anchovies away
sealed envelope waiting
by flickerlight
Gentian violet days
deep in the velvet jewel-box of space
is a world where ice is stone; twilight, noon
niveous & slow with one huge satellite
grinning as it rises to fill the sky
landscape of death's despair
Enochian watch towers wheel
bathed in an atmosphere only in the
elongated hundred-year-long summer
restless flickers wander
running along mountain tops
yet reforming as fast as they decay

Al proksimigxas la Horo kaj
la luno fendigxas...

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16:9 And Allah's is the direction of the way, and some (roads) go not straight. And had He willed He would have led you aright.
54:1 The hour drew nigh and the moon was rent in twain. (This really happened to me, in Port Townsend.)

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    90.
sound of some animal moving, occult Hormuz,
in the walls. i listen; daylight seems so harsh
after three days' rain. The diamond is a marsh
& ev'rywhere i walk my footsteps ooze.

Khanjar rhapsody JAUNONONONO
incense gjálfr vault
arbalest
broken shadows caper spuriously · ask not
odium lysergic fjord
para tu loca
Q R Code
solo in "Southern Man"
injustice sound

five reflections of the one ceiling fan
in the black plastic tops
pf five syrup dispensers
lysergic vault · veil safe
the nightly apparition
or inane plea
for the moon to solidify
into
a word

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Lojban: this is how you write the Mayan number 13.0.0.0.0 (base 20), which is what we are calling our "2012"...
"pf" is to "of" what "pwn" is to "own" :)
Gjálfr is the sound of the sea, in Old Norse.

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    89.
to watch flagflutter
never exactly repeat
& the mind's own turbulence
Li grimpis kaj li grimpis kaj li grimpis
masks as volition
Vi male: cxu vi vidis
the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs
Laton kaj Uzzaon kaj Manaton,
with its stifling disortions
la trian, la alian idolon?
the black shadow of something that wasn't there
bewinged grant crabs
of a world of Lalande
two one one eight five
KO'A STIDI FI DO
JA'E LENU DO
TINBE RIXICI
in another year i would start my diary
a year after that a car would hit me
all of those names are engraved
on my memory

three of them are gone
crystal ashtray
Hollerith holes
like bugs in rare array
time is not like a dollhouse
with the twentieth century one room
the twenty first another
& you can take a doll out of its room
& play with it in another · no
think of time as an ocean
& the ocean's waves are us
the wave goes up & down
& something moves through that is not the water
but a pattern
& the water stays the same
& to go back in time
would be for a wave to reverse itself'
it can't reverse itself
unless all the waves reversed themselves
& then there would still be all the waves moving
& the water going up & down
& nothing would be diff'rent
nothing would have changed

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the first E-o line is from the Esperanto Winnie-the-Pooh (which i no longer have access to)
53:19-20 Have ye thought upon Al-Lat and Al-'Uzza/ And Manat, the third, the other?
then three lines quoted from The Bell Jar
the Lojban corresponds to 16:90 He exorteth you in order that you may take heed...

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    88.
moves out in front of me
then comes to a stop

horizons shrunk
to a warm spot to sleep

Zetas from Reticulus
ev'ry knee shall bow
to Cthulhu

estis subita interne, kaj poste silento
the day itself & its graynesses hateful
collected from all the worlds
a drop of rain from each
& then it changes
Between this corn and
    that corn
VENSA JOI DONRI
MILXE
this one died of cancer last year
another one's parents were murder-suicides
shortly after this picture was taken
& i at the end of the third row
with oversized glasses & plaid shirt
& when was my hair so light
Allah kreis vin, poste Li
the underside of the erect penis
igas vin morti, kaj inter vi
enclosed
estas iuj, kiuj atingas
then not enclosed
kadukan agon, tiel ke ili
Chautauqua
poste nenion plu scias, kion ili
Plötzensee
sciis.

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Lojban: a mild spring day
16:70 And Allah createth you, then causeth you to die, and among you is he who is brought back to the most abject stage of life, so that he knoweth nothing after (having had) knowledge...

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    87.
Barnabites
on Shikoku Bridge
fruit kan loops garoo
garuda rudiment in
rushing culverts
the songs you carry inside you
are all you can take away
& where your eyes have tarried
& what your hands have learned to make
the contrail rood will flourish
with the contrail crescent
cities that might have been populous
footprints maybe still in the regolith
& gather not for protection
but gather to share the tale
that one day we will rise again
& be known among nations

a rushing culvert spoke
& i tallied what it said to me

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    86.
terrible lamps in delicate fire
planet by planet
Cxu Ni lacigxis
pro la unua kreo? Ne!
the sodden ceiling panels give

Tamen ili
estas en dubo pri
a perfect nonchalance
la nova kreo.
over the bookcases

drenching the cookbooks
stepping suddenness
sound of seagulls

out of a clear sky

squishing in wet shoes
across the Charles Bridge
kaj ke estas
lungfish down
Li la Sinjoro de la
greasy star
stela Sirio
still colder in the dawn
climate shifts one growing zone
northward, & this record storm
fill the river to the tops
of ev'ry levee · lungfish down
among the old tires & junked
ice box shells
out of a clear sky TSANI
XISLU RANJI MIBYPRE

coronal mass ejection
skyline of fathoms

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50:15 Were We then worn out by the first creation? Yet they are in doubt about a new creation.
Robot X.?
53:49 And that He it is who is the Lord of Sirius.
Lojban: 'sky-wheel-continuer I' ("Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'..." --Journey)

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    85.
Meadowknoll
the unrelenting rain

the screen begins to fill
completely with red stars

En tiu tago Ni diros al la Infero:
"Cxu vi estas plena?",

kaj gxi respondas: "Cxu estas
ankoraw plie?"

Meadowknoll
the unrelenting rain

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50:30 On the day when We say unto hell: Art thou filled? and it saith: Can there be more to come?

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    84.
deadpan alley
where the tin man lost his bones
tell Amarna
dim bulbs
operating at full capacity
we will always wait for you
Leader
tourist in a cold place
larch · in a sea of spruce

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    83.
the Land of Insolence
& the Land of Lethargy
are not two,
nor are they one.
rubble coast corveé

tax irrevocable
toxinderella
allot Cassandra flinders
whose rancid slanders flit
around marmoreal schnozz

& calcspar phiz
okinami
zaqqumbaya
it's grugprab golem or
insurgent occupancy

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Grugprab is Dalgarno's word for lethargy.

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    82.
conversations · at the boundary stone
i came in · at the middle
i don't even know who they're talking about
molten & yielding · thought
rats in the walls · ice in the veins
today as yesterday
not an atom out of place
i refute time thus & return
to the setting up of the pieces
for another game that amounts
to a theoretical novelty
wastage as never before
complexity
as never before
do they really not see
or see the towers stand
in imagination, as they have stood
& will continue to stand
in this shadowless light
the place where they once stood
turned now to farmland
& flea markets
on the cusp of the new century
one in which these offences
such as Mitt & Newt
will have been obviated
& the people will know
not by the voices of deceit
but by the heart's own counsel
& the car that awaits me
is going to start
& the vast surplus of books
will be something i welcome
as a task near at hand
i more than anyone is suited for
in the pattern of belonging
cxar Ni estas pli proksima
treasure to be borne back
al li ol lia gorgxvejno
to the hive of remaining

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50:16 ...and We are nearer to him than his jugular.

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    81.
black pixels
on a white sign
an exotic place
to be chased through
BAKU KLAMA FA MI'A
to be of use
MI PACNA SE XANRI
kaj vi opinios, ke vi
sandstorm blowing in
malfruis nur tre
in a rich man's world
malmulte
like a plashless bone
MUSMALSI
vere cxi tiu vivo
MENMURSE
estas nur ludo kaj
a measured scar at a full mile
amuzajxo
of rot

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the first Lojban means something like 'We will go without you'
the next is my version of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream"
17:53 ...and ye will think that ye have tarried but a little while
47:36 The life of the world is but a sport and a pastime.
MUSMALSI mosque
MENMURSE mind-twilight
quote: "Money money Money" by ABBA
+ 2 quotes from Robot X

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    80.
silky smooth
in the dark a compass
Melshire
Arkikosa
flight of birds

authentic lineage
bankster GTO
blackened lungfish
5 identical screens to watch
of cartoons while you wait

that lane's all torn up
this one's torn up too
but not as bad
Estas Li Tiu, Kiu montras
al vi Siajn signojn

terrible lamps in delicate fire
kaj sendas al vi el la cxielo
stone lantern
made of papier mache
la provizajxojn
inside are newspapers
that marked the day
edge of the roof-shadow
on the faded planks of the fence
edge of battle

if i ever
lose my sense of danger
edge of traffic
He can hear the door
in the spark

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40:14 He it is who showeth His portents, and sendeth down for you provision from the sky.
+ two quotes by robot X
Arkikosa is a Native American name for the Trinity River in N. Texas.

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