unattributed

papa legba

smuggle
secrets

liquidate
lies

bother
beast before
waking

cross
border

sklin sea

find time

smuggle
secrets

back
to back

time
will be
changing of guard

walking in water
in winter clothing

starve
& speak

change

mind
mess of matter

cold
feet

you

remember
being ransacked

don't you
papa

legba

that is
why

you never
left

edicts with emanations

who went
on to become
firemen
within walls

another assigned
to apartments falling
apart
moving mattresses
sheets
pillow cases

carrying peril

needing
what you need
now

not
what
you may not
need in future

whenever
that would be

only
for
some

others becoming
smoke
or bucket
for bullets

boots
loose
at top
so stuff
food
stuff

stand
in front
of stand

for forest

beings
becoming forest
of bullets

another
assignment
for assembled

remember papa
legba

west so wicked

west so wicked

we will
be done

identification
in
inferno

precise
papers

otherwise you

lost

amongst air

legba papa
legba

bring your boots
burgle books
from barbarians

elites eviscerated
one from other

running
to ramp

to be
counted

this how

it
is

infected
laying on straw

blood on thigh

bed
close to door

smuggling
secrets

to
birds

to take

too

beast

wheelbarrow
shovel

pick

pump out
water
from lake

mud

smuggle
secrets
submerged up
to neck
in shit

without witnesses
except birds

Christopher Barnet

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