From: Badger01@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: Shadowmate--A Poem
Date: Mon Jun  6 16:14:01 1994
Shadowmate slides the wall
holds him up another
on the ground ahead and
                more behind compnay I keep
in inky black walkers swarming

Interested in the shape of a glinter
swoop in the streetlight
eclectic blue Aquamarine
Azure Cerulean Turqoise
    The shadowmates walk on in it
puddlehuddler sky gravegrey
about
to break in half (And how do I assume?)

Clothes shoes jackets jeans swathswarm ragged strings handlehang
half-a-hundred eyes
wait for the bus
wait for it and I'll tell

                        you I have 
loved 
all of the

Razorice writhe
slow serpentinearly
pulse a thousand at once
rumbles in veins 
only I 
look
in every mirror I pass
hate what I see looking out at me
wrath a wraith green eyed

maneworldoorway
sing the body eclectic
chorus
line a form legs go flailing
I see green
between us
all of and them

The Sun is 
everything
The Void is
not
Null and
void the things we said
Empty the way we spoke
half-a-hundred times
looking empty
    my hands fingers locked
as I 
look soread wide I hear the hisspers
whiss from corbel and corners
Shadowmates slide on the dirt
many
following
    me
    to
Nowhere in the eclectic blue
Aquamarine Azure Turquoise Cerulean
our backs my back your back in the grass look up
see the eclectic blue

love the thoud
the thousand faces 
    dogging at my heels the word
the hills of (Thayer and Angell and Greant and Hope)
older than stone
the looping roadway statueRoger facing the glass manhandled crackcity
shadowmated walkers dozens of 
        shadowmates wreathing the feet
Halogenies spear the night split white the air
Exhaust dieselbitter the air heavy brittle broken
Shattered by the roar of a thoudand throats
Soft lips

I didn'tr know you then
I don't 
know me knowing now
Which would you prefer?

That's a shorter version. Sorry for all the typo's

BADGER01
M Rossi III