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ORIENTALE: 2 by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS

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First Line: LEAN CANDLES HUNGER IN
Last Line: WITH LUST
lean candles hunger in
the silence a
brown god
smiles between greentwittering

smokes from broken eyes
a sound
of strangling beasts and bestial
grovelling

hands rasps the purple
dark-
ness
a

worshipper
prostrate within twitching shadow
lolls

sobbing

with lust


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