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Approaching Thirty (Lauds And Matins)

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Laconic tears or Botticelli's Venus         holding the years         like tresses         in a wistful pose.         Tenebrous youth accosted         by callow Time         bleeds the heart         with spring aloes.         No comfortable shibboleths         to restrain the wriggling polyps         in the skin or nestling hair.         Gerundive in movement,         each particled whimper         of the clock surrounds         a cloistered second         poised about the bearded target.         As far as you know, nothing unusual.         A total of eight hundred months         but grammar school sums,         spiel & mileage         to drift across a lifetime.         At thirty, the best half of the potage         is gruel hand drawn from         the sabulous pot.

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