V.

          You call and request a clearer narrative. You say that it will be like old times. The referent verified by parallax. The rhymes feminized.

 

          Verse/vertigo. Virga/Virgule/Verge. Nocturn of the office of the genitive. Canticle of canticles of of.

 

          Antiphon for the janitor's office. The eighth canonical hour. Cremations chalk the varsity diamond. Kiss my decoder ring. Upperclassman sign the winding-sheet. Pour out a little creatine.

 

          Prominent among us goes your absence. Fair Coitus Interruptus. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. Heartthrob. Teen-dream.

 

          Formally requesting closure. Blister rust. Fire blight. Larghetto immolation. The black heralds. O janitors of Israel

          weeping at the threshold of the host.

 

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