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into the animal event
\ni have been dragged and well
\nindeed

\n

every year the same, i guess, except
\nthis time
\nits me

\n

and like the bull, whos horn, whos unbroken
\nrage
\nyour hand anointed

\n

when they seize the bodied, lashed and harnessed
\nnerve by muscle to
\nthe craters edge

\n

as trampled roses bruised into the pass
\nwill grind in
\nto mud by mountain makers hooves

\n

in magenta-black menstrual blood
\nmy terror
\nmy appetite
\n
\n
\n//

\n

Socrates: (in Charmides, cont.)

\n

and well indeed into the wrestling-
\nschool of Taureos (where bulls are offerings)

\n

straight down from the temple
\nof the Queen (of whom nothing is known)

\n

// 153α

\n

καὶ δὴ καὶ εἰς τὴν Ταυρέου παλαίστραν
\nτὴν καταντικρὺ τοῦ τῆς Βασίλης ἱεροῦ εἰσῆλθον

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Phaedrus:

\n

isn’t it overgrowingly (huper-phuos)

\n

(in) other things
\nand also by the names (honomasin)
\njoined (together) (eresthai)

\n

// Phaedrus 234ξ

\n

οὐχ ὑπερφυῶς

\n

τά τε ἄλλα
\nκαὶ τοῖς ὀνόμασιν εἰρῆσθαι

\n

//

\n

yesterday, in the kitchen, our friend whos out
\nfrom prison, was sharing gossip about a junior
\nbeing caught and being sent to aranjep
\nover kampung coffee and orchid media.

\n

and no, they never tell me how it works.
\nthe violet news arrives always from inside
\nthe shackled parallel, the humbled inflorescence.
\nrecirculating sources its own mystery.

\n

war-salvaged rumors from the streets are white
\nlike mouses ears that dream into my peers.
\nwe build them nests from all our mixed-up hair.
\nthe silver blacks the blonde. the ashen thatch.

\n

the trees trail overgrowingly through tails
\nand tubers until, tangled up, the bearded roots.
\nto found us here. among inmates and outlaws
\nand songs, as clove tobacco blanketed our evening.

\n

did you know, they blow the breath of dust
\nuntil a fungus makes the faerie home?
\na thinking blink is how they move from there
\nto here, a mayfly mask, the wake to name a wink.

\n

the jungle knows no law, leastly, my wooden sanity.
\nand when reports an owling bloom, my nervous cell —
\ni dont believe in walls, i saw you on the battlefield, and
\ni dont believe youre dead, how could you trust me.

\n

so we have come to be present, by the previous
\nof evening, out of Potidea, from the army.
\nand as having arrived, through time, gladly
\ni go. and two-thirds of the words are backwards slang.
\n
\n
\n//

\n

Socrates:

\n

we have come to be present (hekomen)
\nby the previous of evening
\nout of Potidea from the army-ground (stratopedon)

\n

and as having arrived through time
\ngladly
\ni go

\n

upon the together-dwelling (sunethes)
\nrubbed-throughs (diatribas)

\n

// Charmides 153α

\n

ἥκομεν τῇ προτεραίᾳ ἑσπέρας ἐκ Ποτειδαίας ἀπὸ τοῦ στρατοπέδου

\n

οἷον δὲ διὰ χρόνου ἀφιγμένος
\nἁσμένως
\nᾖα

\n

ἐπὶ τὰς συνήθεις διατριβάς

\n

//

\n

🌒

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