Reconstructed from the notebook [3] of a paleontologist known to associate with or be E. Cope. Several pages folded or burned, some petrified, others fresh with finger heat:
“Pulled jaw back, cut through cheek with regulation blade
grin is big canoe.
Inside out spoon star: perpendicular to organs, breath. Kissed blade,
then eyes with a sickle. (1)
Attempted RECON but cells forgot to attach.”
And later, in what may or may not be the same entry:
“Vast cooling in the drills. Marsh horses pelted back
wave water out holes in their heads
cut through
bled in sidewalk cracks cooling
and
alarms
bark surgical thumb – in front of your house, a murder, unsound. (2)
The unsound caused me to cough blades and two microchips slipped through. Left corner of mouth tendons cooled and tattooed spoon star to lapel.
Remembered mars, swallowed by sun, the ocean: elbows & neck.
The flag exit
hanging metal rocks with lashing
fingers of my
(ancestor (3))
goat & lamb
our hill
our valley –
the day, gone.”
Should have counted one by
one:
(1) song, (2) song, (3) song, (4) song.
One by one
blood in shoe bones, nails, shoes.
Done with Rabbit’s Toe. (4)
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[3]See Index.