The Loss of Ariel


      There are chambers
      filled with hemp & death

      It does not help
      to have babies

      My breasts have gone dry

      It does not help to live
      in Billy Butler's house

      The burning hemp of reason

      It is
      I am cold

      The poet has left me

      It does not help to go mad

      Some well-intentioned bastard
      would fight to bring me back

      When my babies wake
      they'll find the milk & bread

      & I will be perfected



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