this unlight mantis creeps Nov 28, 2009

A mantis that is as large as the moon does not sway and shiver. It stretches forever through the black silent vacuum as if to grasp the earth in its pincers and drink up its oceans. People on their way to work see the mantis glinting off of their tall buildings as it reaches slowly toward the moon, as if to grasp it in its pincers and eat it. You saw the mantis the other night, coming out of a club and clicking over to a VW and crunching it in half. The birds see the mantis on the telephone lines, swaying and shivering in the wind, as its pincers flash and it munches on an insect. The microscope sees the mantis on the slide, gracefully engulfing its prey. God sees the mantis orbiting the nucleus, screaming and not connected to anything. On my gravestone it says I am sorry that some of you do not know the mantis, but some things are forgotten, and that is just the way things are.

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this unlight mantis creeps

linked from:
- a small black bag containing all secret places
- Dearest Octavius,
- in low orbit over a sea of objects
- irrorate
- like coming up for air
- MASK
- skinny dipping
- The Reckless Beemoth of Snowflake 8
- X. The Cloud of Eyes

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