Balaam's Third Dream

swallowing warm mouthfuls of flat, stale beer Balaam came, beheld the   watershed and was     destroyed (a stable metaphor)

Balaam came to me &   sat: train’s force Forced:   to look on the temple     to be buried

his,  our   apocalypse decided   fates lost only half a   measure leaving only half a measure so, too, today, I   wear longsleeved   garb + gargle   blue mouthwash before   committing myself

what the Philosopher can achieve in a year, I achieve in days.

not him

nor would fixative adhere to principles   that the encomiast   lyricise but fall firmly back down to Judea

~ an alien nation founded on three principles.

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