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                  KOURASAN (from Iraqi Ice Tea)
 Thomas
                  Hibbard
 
                       
                  
                   after 7,000 yearsof gazing in the clear pool
 of the worthy court of poppies
 I, absolute nomad,
 from a mountainous region
 from a land similar to a black hole
 from a land whose flag has turned florescent orange
 decorated with an alteric onion
 from a land of audacious headstones
 experiencing the wakening heat of the mehdi
 from a land at once both curved and square
 had a troubling thought
 perhaps I shouldn't look in clear pools
 perhaps it would be more fun
 if I were something else
 a fragment of a Mudigak jar
 made of clay and disapproval
 a widening contrast
 shushing already the imperial birthday card
 succumbing to the motionless couch of delight
 the impassioned law of emulation
 from Verethragna
 god of the end of the age
   
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                  Advance   //
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