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|    The Doctor to rudy.can@jllkone.not    |
|    Re: cheesetray AKA rachel (2/5)    |
|    04 Jul 25 14:06:28    |
      [continued from previous message]              >>>> > of poisoned roses which faultered       >>>> > borne in time, in their seasons       >>>> > out of poisoned waters       >>>> > out of their multitudes       >>>> > of dripping shells, all beaten       >>>> > by stormy rains, each bearing       >>>> > fresh new fruits from sailing sons       >>>> > who wrestled with G-d       >>>> > and won, they will traverse       >>>> > these time-worn seas, to reap       >>>> > all the wheat required       >>>> > for a bounty of harvests       >>>> > from endless swarths       >>>> > of history's most abundant       >>>> > heavenly fields       >>>> >       >>>> > together, they flood       >>>> > all memory       >>>> > with beneficent grace       >>>> > for those who still remain       >>>> > left behind, diluvian       >>>> > sole survivors       >>>> > at the edge of time       >>>> > who begrudgingly       >>>> > will comply       >>>> > and are compelled to sing       >>>> > as though a cure       >>>> > yea tho' now they, too       >>>> > are sightless       >>>> > for the shadows       >>>> > of that floating rain cloud       >>>> > still hovering       >>>> > over lost visions       >>>> > of uncharted futures       >>>> >       >>>> > entrusted to those       >>>> > for whom it was written       >>>> > still fighting in darkness       >>>> > for this cosmopolitan       >>>> > smite, pioneers       >>>> > on the frontiers       >>>> > of universal classical spaces       >>>> > not of common land       >>>> > cosmos's hidden gems       >>>> > for revolutionaries       >>>> > who demand       >>>> > from their loyal nation       >>>> > these glowing treasures       >>>> > towards which they have       >>>> > been flung       >>>> > engulfed in the flames       >>>> > of abiding fires       >>>> > eternally harnessed       >>>> > torn asunder       >>>> > by the cracked frosts       >>>> > of burning ice       >>>> > subjecting them       >>>> > to this furnace       >>>> >       >>>> > supercharged missiles       >>>> > rich in weight       >>>> > and darkly toxic       >>>> > are powered up       >>>> > then faithfully fired       >>>> > into the returning ark       >>>> > cushioned on all sides       >>>> > by sunless skies       >>>> > which are now, in their       >>>> > wake, sleepily watching       >>>> > these scorned       >>>> > rebel fliers, rockets of       >>>> > long-deserted       >>>> > flavored celestial flesh       >>>> >       >>>> > cemented into ceilings       >>>> > of stone, these instructions       >>>> > guilded into our gentle       >>>> > genes, fiercely controlled       >>>> > and copiously copied       >>>> > since the origin, of the       >>>> > genesis, of the consciousness       >>>> > of one G-d, painstakingly       >>>> > packed away by fortune's sages       >>>> > pairs well-preserved       >>>> > like so many       >>>> > hermetically sealed jars       >>>> > of antique pomes, locked       >>>> > in a central underground       >>>> > sink of a most trampled       >>>> > and forgotten earth, shared       >>>> > throughout the further       >>>> > development of mankind       >>>> > faring from land to land       >>>> > from man to man       >>>> >       >>>> > they reveal a once       >>>> > abounding attic       >>>> > couched atop       >>>> > a noble global house       >>>> > not of this world       >>>> >       >>>> > solemn confidences       >>>> > at long last uncovered       >>>> > by brown, well-tanned       >>>> > good news archaeologists       >>>> > are disclosed       >>>> > for these once sun-struck       >>>> > yea, sun-scorched       >>>> > omni voyagers       >>>> > who dig, unceasingly       >>>> > in their seasons       >>>> > in their ancient gardens       >>>> > passing over, across, under       >>>> > and through the bitter       >>>> > unleavened       >>>> > dry cracked grounds       >>>> > of a now almost       >>>> > wholly paved, conjoined       >>>> > empyreal empire       >>>> > being handed back       >>>> > from israel's first fathers       >>>> > letter by letter       >>>> >       >>>> > like a family jewel       >>>> > or closely guarded pride       >>>> > passed from generation       >>>> > to generation       >>>> > they have tumbled       >>>> > down a watchful       >>>> > observant       >>>> > streaming alphabet chain       >>>> > opening new doors       >>>> > even those       >>>> > flying false flags       >>>> > shoring her own       >>>> > spanish secrets       >>>> >       >>>> > it has all been dutifully       >>>> > tucked away, never       >>>> > to recede fully       >>>> > and die, but skillfully       >>>> > embedded, amongst the       >>>> > soft velvet grasses       >>>> > which blow       >>>> > with the breezes       >>>> > coarsely threaded, into       >>>> > their shallow earth       >>>> > by fibrous roots, and       >>>> > mangled, amongst weeds       >>>> > which creep       >>>> > back through creation, into       >>>> > the mind's veldts' seeds       >>>> > of their plotted cup's       >>>> > most remote colours       >>>> > and can be found there       >>>> > wound up       >>>> > in curious puzzles       >>>> >       >>>> > gifted rings which swear       >>>> > a manufactured fidelity       >>>> > of their most dearly       >>>> > departed civility       >>>> > yet still which bear       >>>> > a gentle kind       >>>> > of re-kindled hope       >>>> > mercurial panacea       >>>> > for these driven       >>>> > truckers of instant truth       >>>> >       >>>> > rough and rowdy       >>>> > well-schooled       >>>> > baby black beasts       >>>> > just released, sit       >>>> > slouched, in heavy chains       >>>> > the youngest one       >>>> > still wearing       >>>> > her mothers' metal       >>>> > badges of the rotten       >>>> > shadows of sheets bloodied       >>>> > by unborn memories       >>>> > of sleet and rain       >>>> > she will shrink       >>>> > from the moonlight       >>>> > rising, meeting the pain       >>>> > of a krystal       >>>> > cleared conscience       >>>> >       >>>> > continually, they plow       >>>> > through scattered       >>>> > subterranean planes       >>>> > of layered cosmic lands       >>>> > in search of       >>>> > some kind of mercy       >>>> >       >>>> > deific validation, for their       >>>> > constitutional conviction       >>>> > of one nation       >>>> > under G-d       >>>> > a delivery, of some kind       >>>> > of salvific wingd victory       >>>> > conveying       >>>> > their unified story       >>>> >       >>>> > meticulously groomed       >>>> > for this long-planned journey       >>>> > dashing flight       >>>> > back through rivers split       >>>> > rich and red and bloody       >>>> > as egypt's deadly nile       >>>> > through once fallow       >>>> > cloverleafs of soulless       >>>> > virgin highway       >>>> > awoke, again, for them       >>>> > they are loaded       >>>> > as they back into       >>>> > a more perfect world       >>>> >       >>>> > indelibly branded       >>>> > into their rich-flowing blood       >>>> > they are brothers       >>>> > of the skies       >>>> > pre-determined by design       >>>> > to find       >>>> > this ineffaceable fusion       >>>> > through shared reminders       >>>> > of their holy communion       >>>> > traces of an inscribed       >>>> > diamond destiny       >>>> > maps of ancient astronomy       >>>> > the printed inversion       >>>> > of a twinkling       >>>> > star-writ narrative       >>>> > of the promised history       >>>> > of the promised birth       >>>> > of the promised prince       >>>> > at the incipience       >>>> > of the dawn       >>>> > of holy yesteryear       >>>> >       >>>> > hail, this breath of life       >>>> > granting pathways out       >>>> > honoring sanctioned       >>>> > tribal rights       >>>> > frankly fired, through       >>>> > shock and awe       >>>> > past cast inhabitants       >>>> > of a silent       >>>> > acquiescent first city moon       >>>> > into the ether       >>>> > of the unknown       >>>> >       >>>> > like glass into the eye       >>>> > but it will regrow       >>>> > a new coat       >>>> > as the banished serpent itself       >>>> > crawling, out of eden       >>>> > on its belly       >>>> > forcefully it pierces       >>>> > as it flies quickly       >>>> > into waters of slippery flesh       >>>> > a stinging, icy delivery              [continued in next message]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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