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Did I Write This Randomly?

Steven Clifford

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The artist craft-walking,

floorboard’s boyish roughness is

looking downstairs

at autodidactic censorship,

stargazing

at the ceiling’s glowing stickers.

Ostensible flashlight ponders the authentic beam,

shining only in the night:

black bloodstream of chaos: death’s mother,

a rich Amsterdam-prostitute.

Her vagina is immortality. “My life for an afterlife?”

inquires the artist.

Her son will kill him anyway, eventually.

His fornication is a gamble. The alternative?

(Celibacy of chaos)

The bed’s priesthood worships possible fame

in life, unfortunately.

Just understand the partaker/spectator-paradox:

everyone’s chasing celebrity to be watched by everyone.

There is no stage but capitalism.

There is no church but Hollywood.

To write? Or to think in the dark? That is not the question.

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Steven Clifford
Steven Clifford

Written by Steven Clifford

Clifford is a writer and poet from Long Island, NY. He’s “mentally Ill” but considers it a gift with consequences from a generous muse.

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