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Sufi Style<BR><BR>
<a href='delicious.php'>delicious</a><BR>
<a href='nutritious.php'>nutritious</a><BR>
<a href='archives.php'>archives</a><BR>for three months
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you consumed me
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with your dialectic of
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perfidy, avarice, and
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federalism
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an entire season
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locked in your embrace
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through rain
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and hail
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and sun
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and earthquake
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you emerged as the constant
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on an ambitious quest
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through eighty-five
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only to disappear coldly
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upon cessation
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from shelf to self to shelf
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your intellectual prostitution
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cycles on
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through the dust of minds lost
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to the centuries past
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in anticipation of
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two hundred fifteen more
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Publius,
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the American Hydra
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the perpetual whore.</BODY>
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