Closed Environment

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black & 
white movies 
that color 
the mind 

songs 
sung of 

Saint-Saëns' 
macabre dancers 
animal carni
vals 

Once a month, in early spring once a week, he would 
drive up to the mountains, then walk for about thirty 
minutes to a small creek he had discovered. There he 
would pick watercress & dandelion leaves, wild straw
berries in the spring. The dandelion leaves he turned 
into wine, the watercress he added to his sandwiches 
& salads. In late evening, in early spring, he would sit 
on the small balcony of his 37th floor studio apartment 
eating the strawberries, looking out across towards the 
mountains, bridging the gap between. 

thought 
étude 

* 

étude
iously 

he worked 
knight after 
knight on ways 
to destroy the 
temple of 
the policiers 

but was dis
poemed by 
the tracts he 
read during 
the day 

"Have you a gold cup….?" 

san greal 
sang real 

holistic
ally 

* 

holistically 

he was unable 
to conceive 

that the concept of the particle accelerator 
he was working on to destroy the palace 
of the templars would eventually 
become the template for another temple 

forgot that                   (the 
pure science                catapults & 
begets im-                    burning 
purities when              mirrors of 
applied                         Archimedes) 

forgot the 
unforeseen con
sequences 
as he re
played the 
foreseen 
sequences in 
the games of 
Capablanca 

beneath a 
poster 
of Dali's 
burning 
giraffes 

* 

giraffes 
eat the 
higher 
leaves 
of the 
McArbres

   im 
part
   ial 
to any 
   part 
of the trunk
   below 

animated 
animists 
practising 
self-love 

leaving the 
ground 
cover for 
et in arcadia ego 
romantics & 
other past
oral 
lists 

leaving 
the temple 
empty the 
songs 
un-

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