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    February 17, 2016

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    Top Hat

    2/17/2016

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    Doug Bolling

                              This skull had a tongue in it, and

                              could sing once.

                                                              Hamlet V.1.


     

    The strangeness of it.

    Bony carapace of all we are

    yet never seen short  of death

    when plucked from some foul

    smelling trench where once

    prayers, other upward words,

    had passed into wind and distance

    to be forgotten sooner

    or later.

     

    Think 28 bones of intricate suture

    joined jig-saw like as though for

    a long war or slow decline through

    years unfriendly, unforeseen, not

    to be trusted.

     

    Think cerebral hemispheres,

    gray matter, white matter, pons

    medulla, and the crucial lobes.

    Think furtive swish of liquid

    as you bend and dive, race madly

    through whatever days allowed.

    Great melon ripe with who you are,

    repository of song and word, your

    past and present, frail gropings

    toward some future imagined

    or believed.

     

    Is it then the central irony of

    all human passage that the

    boned vault in which the treasure

    lies knows nothing of you

    and everything.

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