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A. Machine


Hey, I am learning what it means to ride condemned.
I may be breaking up. I am doing 85 outside the kingdom


Of heaven, under the overpass and passed over,
The past is over and I'm over the past. My odometer


Is broken, can you help me? When you get this mess-
Age, I may be a half-ton crush, a half tone of mist


And mystery, maybe trooper bait with the ambulance
Ambling somewhere, or a dial of holy stations, a band-


Age of clamor and spooling, a dash and semaphore,
A pupil of motion on my way to be buried or planted or


Crammed or creamed, treading light and water or tread
and trepidation, maybe. Hey, I am backfiring along a road


Through the future, I am alive skidding on the tongue,
When you get this message, will you sigh, My lover is gone?

Written by Terrance Hayes

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