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PLUTONIUM, URANIUM AND LEAD THORIUM, MERCURY AND DREAD THE WORLD IS FALLING APART ATOM BY ATOM NOTHING WILL LAST  WHICH IS WHY WE YEARN  FOR A PERMANENT HOME ONE THAT WON'T WEAR AWAY I HAD A DREAM  THAT HAUNTS MY SOUL IN IT, I HEAR A VOICE SING A WONDERFUL MELODY THE NOTES STOPPED THE PASSAGE OF TIME AND FILLED MY HEART WITH ACHING I WAS TRANSFIXED BY THE SOUND IT WASHED OVER ME IN WAVE AFTER WAVE OF HEALING BEAUTY ALL TOO SOON THE DREAM ENDED AND I AWOKE YET RATHER THAN FADING INTO THE ROOM  I REMEMBERED EVERY WORD THAT HAD BEEN SUNG A BROOD OF VIPERS HATCHED BENEATH THE GROUND THEY SLITHERED OUT INTO A FIELD OF SHEEP THEY TALKED TOGETHER TO CREATE A PLAN IF THEY KILLED THE WHOLE FLOCK THEY'D STARVE IF THEY TRIED TO  PICK OFF A FEW  THE FLOCK MIGHT TRAMPLE THEM THEY DECIDED TO  COW THE SHEEP WITH  THE THREAT OF THEIR VENOM  AND DEMAND THE SHEEP PAY TRIBUTE WITH  A FEW LAMBS THE FLOCK COULD SURVIVE AND THE SNAKES COULD  RULE IN HATE...

TIME IS A FOLD IN SPACE THAT WEAVES THE SEVEN SPHERES OF COSMIC ETERNITY THAT WHICH WILL BE BECOMES PART OF PAST TIME IN AN INFINITE LOOP OF NOW CHAOS PATTERNS THROW DESIGNS ON THE WALL OF MAN’S AWARENESS SHAPES NAVIGATE UNCONSCIOUS EONS BLURRING INTO OLD PATTERNS OF SKY HIERARCHY AND DUST CHILDREN A DNA MOLECULE TWIRLS ON ITS OWN AXIS A LIBRARY OF LIFE A WORLD SEQUENCED FOUNDED UPON LAWS SHAPED BY MATHEMATICS THE FOLDS OF LINEN WRAPPED PHARAOH AND ALL THE PEOPLE MADE OF BLUE-BLOSSOMED FLAX IT CLOTHED, REPAIRED YIELDED TRADE A FURLED SAIL A CHARITABLE NILE WISDOM BIRTHED PROSPERITY IN A SANCTUARY UP BEYOND THE PEAKS WHERE OLD MEN GAIN YOUTH UNIQUE AMONG THE WORLD WHENCE THEY FIRST LIVED EVE BORE CAIN IN BLOOD OVERNIGHT, HE STROVE A VEIL ROBBED HIS SIGHT THEN, HE ATTEMPTED TO MIX ONE GOD WITH WON SOD TO FORSAKE ADAM’S IMPRINT PAIN PUT A RIFT IN THE CLAN THREATENING US IN VERY STARK SHADES OF HURT IN ENTERED ADAM BY TIME MANKIND SEETHES IN HATE REVENGE MUSCLES IN INTO COGNITION PURE LOVE...

THE EAGLE WATCHED ONCE PROUD, FEEBLE A SHRUNKEN DOMAIN TAKEN BY HAWKS AND OWLS THE VOLES PLAYED UNAFRAID OF BEAK OR TALONS MICE SCURRIED PAST OLD WINGS RAISING A HOST OF HUNGRY BABIES THE FARMER SIGHED TINY MOUTHS DEVOURED THE CROP NOTHING LEFT BUT NAKED STALKS IN A FIELD HE COULDN’T AFFORD HURT ECHOES WITHIN OUR WORLD A UNIVERSE OF TEARS EACH RIPPLING OUTWARD A WAVE OF PAIN A SEA OF COLD WHO WILL CROSS ITS STARK HORIZON? AMID THE BLIZZARD A YOUNG MAN GRIPPED TO THE ROPE THE BARN HID BEHIND SNOW FLURRIES THE ROUGH FIBERS THE SOLE LIFELINE TO HIS HOME OUT OF EDEN THE DRY GROUND CHOKED OUR JOY EAST OF NGORO SWEAT MINGLED WITH GALL A DRUMBEAT OF BONDAGE FUTURE CHAINS FORGED IN BITTERNESS BETWEEN THE RIVERS GRASS-SWEPT STEPPES A WIDE-OPEN SEA SHOALS OF HORSES CRASHING IN WAVES WITH BOWRIDERS UPON HOMER’S SHORE A WILD VOICE SHOUTS AS WALLS TOPPLE A VILLAGE FALLS PEOPLE FLEE SPURRED BY A DEMON’S TERROR DANES AND RUS SAIL THE IRON VOLGA TURKS, MONGOLS ROAM THE PLAINS THE METROPOLIS GREW WEAK ...

I WAS BORN IN THE WILDERNESS  IN A TENT OF BITTERNESS  ON A RUG OF NEW SHEEPSKIN  A DRY WIND BLEW  WE TRIED TO RALLY THE  UNSEEN HAND OF GOD  IT WOULDN'T SAVE  IN A RAGE, THE ARMY BEGAN  ATTACKING IN ROGUE WAVES  BUT ALL OUR POWER  IT DRIED UP IN PRIDE  OUR ENEMIES DROWN US IN BLOOD  WE STASH JOY IN THE SAND  IN SCABROUS, MUDDY HUTS  WE LANGUISHED BY THE NILE  TOO MANY OF US FELT  THE GREEDY CRACK OF A WHIP  ROWS OF GRAVES  WARN OF HIDDEN PLAGUES  A GOLD OX WEARING  A SUNDISK OVER ITS HORNS  CONVINCED AARON TO  REACH FOR A GOLDEN PROBLEM  HE SHOULD'VE BROUGHT  HIS WORRIES TO MOSES  FASTS SHAME STRENGTH  EVEN MEN PASS OUT  CHILDREN OFTEN CRY   RENT BY WORMS   TO HUNGER IS THE  KNIFE THAT CUTS WITH  A THOROUGH CRUELTY  NO FATHERS TO FEAST IN CANAAN  YEARS WANDERING GAINS  NONE OF GOD'S GRAIN  A TIRED SOUL W...

Part 1: HOW DO WE ERR  IF BOYS FEAR? DEAR OVID:  MY DAY I  TEN-DOMERS FAT-LEARN LEAST EFFIGY ADS I GEL TASTE INGRATE CAR NOON  COLOR TEN SOAP  Part 2: HIDDEN GAEL OF EARLY SCOW BAYS EAT ARDOR I-FADER TOYOTA'S SINEWS VET TIN ONE FIN LEG GO SEED DEFER NO-RAM OAF LA CARRY  MR. IT-TOP Each poem has 100 letters, and interlocks within a 10x10 grid. Part 1 goes left to right from the top left corner, while Part 2 goes from top to bottom from the top left corner.

 "I'M EXHAUSTED." "ME TOO, BABY."  "I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN DRIVING ALL NIGHT TO GET TO THE MIAMI AIRPORT FOR A TAMPA FLIGHT." "WE SAID, 'IF YEAST IN THE BREAD-'" "IT'LL RISE. HOW DO I SUSTAIN ALL OF DADDY'S STRENGTH." "HE LEANED ON JESUS."  "HE REFUSED TO HEAL HIS CANCER!" "CHILD, WE BOTH HAVE TO PRAY TO LIVE ANOTHER DAY." "IT'S EVIL TO BEG. WE SHOULDN'T BOW WHEN...WHEN HE WON'T FREE US!"  "SO YOU WANT TO BE FREED FROM...?" "YES, MAMA. FROM VIOLENT, EVIL POLICE."  "I DO, TOO. BUT EVIL SNEAKS IN PAST PRIDE."  "ARE YOU SAYING THAT MY PRIDE'S THE-" "NO, NOT YOURS. THEIRS. YOU KNOW IF A WHITE FAMILY LOSES SOMEONE TO THE COPS, IT IS A PROBLEM."  "DON'T THEY NOTICE WE'RE DYING!?"  "NO. THEY'RE DYING, TOO. NUMB AND ALONE, NO GOD, NO PURPOSE, NO HOPE."  "SO THESE BECOME MY BURDEN?...