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Medieval
cities
1. would
manage the f l o w of waste
I’m listening and nodding to
by hurling it out the window
.:
earth could eat it
.:
I’d forget –
.
Medieval
cities
2. learnt
to fear bad smells
replacing the fertilization of soil with
the sanitation
system
pipe colonies +
maze-hierarchies
choked throats
leading to:
i. oceanic
pollution
a. on
beaches where you showed
me how to make sandcastles
.
Medieval
cities
3. bother
me
because
the poison
never
leaves
scared away
temporarily
by miasma-myths
like smoke dragons
dark green escaping
to the drains,
diluting
handfuls of
displaces
scattering peoples
throwing them to sea
diluting
dead languages
into living mouths
never quite gone
diluting
.: only the colour
lightens -- foamy sage
dripping from my lips
well-hidden
under the waves
of your
jet-black hair, where
words can
mean n o t h i n g*
.
*and I
still trace them with my fingers.
Points: 187
Reviews: 1360
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