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Norman Wilkinson

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 459

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“lead me to the true thing / lead me to the grotto / lead me to the vibrating animal / i’ll pretend i don’t have it in me / already” Liz Bowen
objects of war
    as    large        
as large as    large       
as large as large as 
largely due    to the number    of morale ships 
in 1917 shipping ships in    name only form
    this made it    difficult    the summer of 1917
shipping    ships invented on ships    shipping colours of summer 
shipping the name dazzled form
this made it a dazzling section of british warships 
dazzle-painted on ship's summer of british marine concept 
shipping ships 
dazzle ships 
number shipping 
summer forms the concept
in the summer of british forms

Source: Bowen, Liz. “we steal our behaviors.” Sugarblood. Metatron, 2017. p. 17.

Wikipedia Poem, No. 179

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“four hundred years of ship-spread / jihad at first called / the Thirty Years War / buff coats and ships’ cannon / the Christian civil war / of worldwide estrangement” Les Murray

 

brothel
or doggerel
brothel wherever more

the alchemy of middle english
clumsiness sexual offenses—doggerel
and wherever more dog related

doggerel promises
as bad poetry as
unkempt premises

continued phrase dodging
discharges in typical male fashion
ancient times and “look up!”

dog killer like
middle english clumsiness
or the banal differences

of dice games
goods and services
a sixteenth century demigod

old church
slang imprisonment
for the offense

wikipedia poem, no. 37 [study of “The Raft of the Medusa” for a larger work]

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 ONE

in the 
coast of the colony the 
        diving ceremony and 
    founding 
   survivors 1816 Méduse 
      first nights 
black bough
of inept navigation 
and one Arguin
         General Doom bank of the towering above 
  the text 
         the Britains still 
promotion received 
on 
   the 
Napoleonic Nymphe 
          forced by the colonel 
      Julien-Désiré 
Schmaltz Medusa 
the coast Africault's softening 
           146 
    men wander
helped at 
    Sea 
          by 1816 sauvage naufrage de la frigates
Hauled away 
      We've 
been frigates
      Jump up 


TWO

to be a political
   philosopher 
      
studies force converse 
define
at Sea 
by the fast of 
their 
    own fate ac-competent an aground guilt incided to fear 
Jump up 
 Bank of Oceans width and the 
text 
    day once (Die 
    Ästheticism passens d’abord)

Global master 
remaining to 
became 
     named
Balkan
Under long 
Medusa
Impressions
         in 1818 over the
Senatomic
      book part of a spring 
ceremony aboard 
archaeological 
legends
Three-tonnes


THREE

      read, 	From Bucephalus
		Through five winds
    		Discount to frigation
the modern-day Senatomic book 
semitones 
to the death there 
       based rapidly
      at 
Sea by the dangers 
       at Surabaya then reappeared
      on the edited horizon
    
the gun deck 
& 
fort in the Medusa film
          The Écho 
tows 13 days
  the first on board 
    a painting of Écho hovers above The Écho
      
        The ships 
builder		part of the portrayals 
    to deglaze and immediate 
to 
     retake 
out. Three-tonnes
to sea

      Contact 
with 
  the word