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Under Mine and Over Pleasure, a Short Story by Muckraker Jones

from Aggressively Ethnically Ambiguous by Rhys Langston

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hydrophile mutants,
may your warm sands
lead you to roads
and insurance claims

the desert took me in,
yeah I was swallowed by the landless

finna bury my chest in dunes
of unmarked desert,
street view to pass along,
under mine and over pleasure.

face was tanned leather
while the pretext was the weather,
the whirls of cyclones
disassembled me better.

lacking water, last straw,
stripped camel’s back and law,
sweated over cold steel
while hands gripped, raw.
sun beat down; I felt the sound.
distance to the spring felt profound.

collated my palms with the distance.
traded last leaf of hibiscus
for the passage out of camp,
under darkness,
cover, listless

ain’t trying life with them bandits,
for when she left that night, yeah I was stranded
my coffer vacated to be just a shell of what she had branded:
skin was raised,
sensitive to light,
burnt to the touch for a fortnight,
keloid kept the 20/20 hindsight,
skipped the seance in the canyon for what just might

headlong toward horizons,
the cracked glass,
perfect timing, read the hands.

my sweat swallowed the dust,
tallied captain’s log, and
I surveyed the land

This excess nightfall strikes me
as forces beyond my control
brandishing their egos:

I am not afraid,
never have I been so

felt a brooding presence and so I sped forth.
by the sky format, stars, I supposed north
the blowing, rising earth had consumed my torch,
but darkness had always been my sport

against the wind held on,
trudged through dunes to where I felt no map would chart from.
and at point I dug myself deep,
closed my eyes until I felt the heat.

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from Aggressively Ethnically Ambiguous, released September 1, 2017
Produced by MVNTRA and Rhys Langston

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