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Keyboard class is accompanied by the crow Edgar Allen No

Mopped the floor two weeks back before hitting a mental plateau

Now a canopy of dust, hair cyclones and crumbs aglow Circled streaks on the tabletop; compendious lave Alabaster candle wax drips half-shaved

Off with a butter knife during a hangover from champagne

A fogged brain again again again

Drops of syrups, soups and thyme sprigs Browned and dried quick

A Pollock under the table

Depicts a society, mentally

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Last week’s salmon package and stems of five figs On the countertop

An ammonia cloud, fatal

It gets murky at the bottom of the circle of fifths The ceiling paint parts, rifts

Upstairs my keyboard harmonics vomits

Steps on the old wooden floor tremble a mental abyss Creaks and squeaks

From outside the crow peers in Circled streaks

Stain the windows and antiques Compendious lave

The crow creeps

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Illustration by CJ Sommerfeld