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By Rob AngeliPublished 3 years ago 1 min read

shakespeare

A preposterous prophetic preproclaimer of modern moose mores?

Just hablar happy? [or] fustigeant. in quotes. end quotes. “accusative marker,”

voluble, crazy-voiced,

perhaps mantic/accusatory the crazed voice

in amphitheaters of open audience;

are these places of grand and august silence where someone is watching this stage

[absent/present]

giving it a roll call? fustigeant? damnd and accusing

tracking the manes thru birdflight

the shape of this liver or that kidney, prescriptive

down the rusty bloodwashd corridors of racine rituals,

frightning places where the crises of tortured children

bland the mind with little papercuts

[echo]

schoolprisons watchd/unwatchd

aristoteleanly executive or no

some primitive taboo

or is it

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About the Creator

Rob Angeli

sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.

-Virgil Aeneid I.462

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