from INSTANT CLASSIC 
        
      “under long obedience tried”  
      (Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 7) 
        
      without  asking the chariot 
        i  walk towards the scene  
        that  interests least.  be it eve 
        in  the garden voiceless 
        or  a moment of heterosexual 
        panic  that necessitates it  
        necessary  to drive joystick 
      how  true is the Milton  
        you  suggest.  how long  
        your  internal construction 
        of  warfare, your satire of the men 
        in  the sky.  be it norm or kin structure. 
        hair  cut or handmade satchel. 
        your  army is no match for  
      my  stairs.  waif.  behemoth.   
        spinal  amalgamation.  the metal 
        in  my neck stronger than any 
        revisionist  fantasy of Pocahontas.   
        i  am stronger than your  
  “perfect  humanity” your arch- 
        angelic  plates reminiscent  
      a  moment of general anesthesia 
        translate  to mean antithetical  
        to  missing you o, lax inhibitor 
        don’t diet until decide 
        on a wig, guided by the want 
        to be cowboys, not mothers. 
        posthuman, not interlocutor. 
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