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Joe Aprile
The Abyss
A poet's insatiable longing:
the urge to destruction and ruin,
to rip away at the foundation of relations
carved from ice and glitter,
to trap the true and only devil
in its lair of indifference,
to sever the heart of greed
from the body of reason,
to open up the infinite,
to reveal the longing
and the dread.
A poet's endless search
for elusive freedom,
for the center of desire,
for the infinite textures of the flesh,
for the extent and extremes of human love.
A poet's love of wisdom and
the benevolence of contempt,
a natural disdain for ardor and
false promise.
A poet's insatiable yearning
thirst for freedom and
the inevitable downfall of his dreams.
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