zafusy

Edmund Spenser died in fire
then doubled down to England,
bloke.

Bill Blake climbed the angel ladder,
died and saw the mundane
Pope.

But Butler Yeats’ discarnate matter,
supernal sapphira, seely Mathers,
died when Jim Joyce saw the elephant.
Nope.

A.E. Reiff

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