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the world's in a bad state

leaders who cannot grasp

the immensities of living

people caught in the clasp

of ignorance (stuffed with hate)

essential substances giving

off poisons (the nuclear asp

already biting) too late

planet earth at its last gasp

maybe by chance surviving

just one crude hope as bait

for a fresh world - a loud rasp

of chaos (dreamed-sense reviving)

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love's a layer we must break through

upon it dutifully we ride content

that all the world's an inlet to our stream

that we-alone is what is prominent

love's frankness is a blindness to the view

the other night love shattered like a beam

directly blasted - its ravagement

destroyed the selves we thought we knew

and dashed us splattered to a continent

whose heart-aches only murder could redeem

i sat across the bed and looked at you

and saw (still raw) a deep transfigurement -

a fuller venus scalloped from love's dream