AYÒDÉJÌ ISRAEL

Anti-resolution

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we saw white smokes. & they wet our eyelids. 
          & witnessed the sky chanting blue elegies, 
which fumes filled the brim of the eyes 
          of the sky. we were there, when the clouds 
were shedding sad tears on the earth. we saw 
          clouds tearing their lens apart for waters 
to fall on the lands they hoped to fall upon
          when they grow weary of the atmosphere they grasp
their breath from. what can you do, when 
          you are with the world & the world is falling apart 
from itself? you can only gaze, for a while, 
          or swallow a mouthful of amazement. but 
you find yourself cracking with its hem, at last, 
          like a fisherman, drawn into the water by the fish, 
with his hook. one is just to stand aloof, & 
          whisper some little timid prayers for the old soldier, 
who has been taken into captivity by the same rifle 
          he is holding. what we saw was that. there 
were young men and women, with good strings 
          sitting inside their arms, they shouted 
for a moment & pulled their legs forward, like 
          they were pulling a canoe on a body of water. & 
we heard sudden thunderbolt filling the air, & 
          sudden silence fell among them, like 
they were walking on a tiny ladder to heaven

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