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    Morphine addiction is central to understanding the work of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte. This is not a slight, not hardly; the stamina to reside in adjacence is a poet’s power, and morphine, as with other substances, is a great creator of difference. The addict poet, for a time, can be like Mercury — shuttling between the world of the living and that of the dead — a fortuitous personage for the act of description.



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NOTES FOR A COMING ATTRACTION

I died. Deader and deader. / "Little joke corpse!" Yeah, I shrank beyond belief; I'd even fit quite neatly / inside the bowl of my ridiculously / miniscule briarwood pipe. / Ishmael they call me, Father / Ishmael. I'm such a pipsqueak, though, / they have got to be kidding.

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AUG 2021
ISBN-10: 0882681281

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SHAMPOO

Incense clings to the Corpse's abdomen / Great is Allah! Not I for I was born / To loathe myself and drink through my thin skin / Evening's hope and the naked fright of dawn

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AUG 2021
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CROWNED HEAD

Madness thundery gist of dream and dross / Ring where the cave of future ring / Cherry between me and the boogeyman Nothingness / My wind-tossed head a flurry of feathers

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JUL 2021
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THE BORDERS OF LOVE

Between two mouths in a kiss / Windowglass.

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JUL 2021
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THE WING OF SLEEP

He waded all the way back up life's stream / And came out the other side / Lost where others wander not yet born

He dreamt he was dreaming / Changing planets / Sleeping only to awake over and over / To the clock of blood ticking in his head

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JUL 2021
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MASKED LIFE

A massive pale waxwork of a woma / Forever rotating in horrible slow motion, / The statue spins like a top on the grease of dreams, / A blind lighthouse whose eclipsed face is / Haloed with a numb nimbus of horror

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JUN 2021
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VACANCY IN GLASS

To a palace made / Of wind / To a palace whose towers / Are pillars of fire by day / To an opal palace / In the sky's zenith heart

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JUN 2021
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WIND FIRE

They say when there was no / Such thing as time or place / The wind lived by itself / Whirling in empty space / To fill a hungry hear / Unborn with sighs until / From rubbing wind on wind

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MAY 2021
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TO THE NORTH WIND

Alive yet not alive you crawl in stone / Prisoner of an air castl / Lover in a dread / Crushed in advance / By the heavy heav / Marble anchor of the / Death you have been howling for for a hundred centuries

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APR 2021
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THE MYSTIC EGG

... And when the cycle of his sufferings ended / From an Antarctic refuge he ascended / Into the cold nude beauty of the night / Expanding, full of holes, immense yet light

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APR 2021
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INTO THE EYES OF NIGHT

A woman dozes on a roof her name is night / Ancient abandoned to the perils of intoxication / To sleep's fumbling treasons / Dreamer in an avalanche of slips / Ditched on a high glassy place to eyeball outer space

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MAR 2021
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THE PERPETUAL INCANTATION

That awful mask a snapshot
Amazed solitude
Transfixes on the surface
Of a perennial torrent flesh
Casual flesh

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MAR 2021
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WHAT A HOWLING SHAME

What a howling shame
progress
has eliminated the usage
of the tinderbox
that pyrological machine

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MAR 2021
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IMPURE POEM

At the bottom of the green
Waters of death

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MAR 2021
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