this was going on when they invented agriculture: sand dunes forming
in the back of the mouth of namibia
orange rocks make orange sand
a milky dream of carrot powder
that is money,
i think
"& did you know," she went on "that the black mamba is called the black mamba
not because of the color of its external scales (grey-white) but due
to the intense blackness of the inside of it's mouth?"
i, shirtless in the desert, kill a venomous snake to be closer to it
& to draw flies
in the millions
they hover
close over a teacup so full of
diamond
that it breaks but keeps
its shape
here is a voice:
"slave-master:
starvation is not your worry
your breath is an ache from inside the rock's color
bathing me between parentheses
in dark yellow urine"
apparently death
in hotel toilet bowl
wrapped a snake
& come let's make
there's fire hot enough
to remove the evil haloes
that few a ships rode in on
They, bringing blackness
i assume the pose
of the zoo-kept
& turn my maps
on the mouth of the continent
that looked over the gate
and clove to it
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