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THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) VOLUME 12 NUMBER 2 JUL 2010
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CHRISTOPHER BARNES
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CHRISTOPHER BARNES Comrade Drink to his rendition - I unearthed this declassified logbook, buried under impenetrable permanent markers. A sodium pentathlon skid, rubs out visitations. Who'd never say die able to outface showdown dark horses? One-way mirror - in-character, rain-of-blows, austere words. Snarling. They couldn't Prisoner
Of State brother Gilhespy, - no haymaking, no pulse. Academic Interest
There's a tower tipping Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. Peter would apprehend where handrails are, fathom creeps and blind spots, oversee bruisers in Panama, Fukuoka, Hawaii. These grips are waylayable. A POW crushed in a frame, fibreglass twine locking ankles at the distorting mirror of Freedom. We've decoded sealed book files in universities, fine-tuned and we don't shadow box hopes dashed. Audio Warfare Mill pond calm, the moon on the Los Alamos National Lab. Nod, nod, mimes Garry doctoring silicone crystals in an infixed gunroom. Dr. Hardt's shut down, sidereal time, clipping snipers to the brain syncro-mesher, faded out are twiney electrodes that internalise alpha waves about-facing into the zoostorm monitor. Four-star generals can expect an afterclap, gumshoe proof will be raspberried, addresses printed - no cradle-song caution. I can eclipse by these soft focuses, a running sore insurgent, low volume. CHRISTOPHER BARNES, UK The Writers Post & literature-in-translation, founded 1999,
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