four poems
Chris Mason
DREAM CLASSROOM SHAMBLES
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Smell receptors evolving, chemically rich ocean; walk, swim, breathe, mad, stinky, happy |
Dream classroom shambles; educational officials observing; students slowly form circle tell feelings |
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Rain washes smoky air; circle time circle - happy, stinky mad, stinky, happy |
Olfactory smell bulb next to limbic system feelings; air thick particulate matter |
OATMEAL STARTS MORNING
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Seaweed in feed decreases methane, cows' farts and burps, cooling digestive Earth |
Oatmeal starts morning on the table of the master of Science Fiction |
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Oatmeal good for blood shakes my nighttime stomach, rough waves of roughage |
Eighteenth Century English Leveller tried eating only grass, grazing meadow; stomach rebelled |
HOMO NALEDI THREE
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Some remembering beings remember back to early noticings of other remembering beings |
Homo Naledi three hundred thousand years ago maybe buried dead drew lines |
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Whale stress hormones ocean never was so noisy far songs never unhearable |
Even Tyrannosaurus Rex brain big enough for complex social Tyrannosaurus group life |
DREAM PARTY AGED
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Actress hard-boiled lesbian drug-world detective radiant smile t-shirt table arts high school |
Dream party aged banjo singer singing murder ballad songs old hope songs |
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Resting ears outside thrash music set see parade violence interrupters reclaim street |
Fender bender traffic jam folk festival anger apology accepted fender bender solidarity |