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S. K. Kelen

Who steers the thunderbolt?
Events conspire: there’s the one
Growling like a tigress, calls you ‘mate’.
Choose life.  Love’s duty will not wait.
Answer with your being and art,
Learn how to care.  Late at night
Armpits that are carburettors
Heat the air, and heart
Programmed to ache, stay young
Until the beautiful one says
Ulla ulla ulla and I am
The most comfortable chair.
A sunbeam enters the palace.

© S. K. Kelen. All rights reserved.
From Goddess of Mercy | Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002
Reprinted by permission of the author.

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