06-06-2013, 10:41 PM
OK. How about this:
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My spirit is restless tonight.
It swells under a moth-eaten bed sheet
It is ancient and undulating.
Grotesque and fantastic.
A machine made up of tarnished mechanical bits and pieces
A tangle of steel cables, dented metal discs, gears, grease and bile.
Its movement erratic and covert like some varmint rustling through the leaves.
It seems to freeze in place when I try to lock on to it, its shape or intent.
Only to spasm and jerk into motion showing fleeting glimpses of what it is
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My spirit is restless tonight.
It swells under a moth-eaten bed sheet
It is ancient and undulating.
Grotesque and fantastic.
A machine made up of tarnished mechanical bits and pieces
A tangle of steel cables, dented metal discs, gears, grease and bile.
Its movement erratic and covert like some varmint rustling through the leaves.
It seems to freeze in place when I try to lock on to it, its shape or intent.
Only to spasm and jerk into motion showing fleeting glimpses of what it is