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Unusual Inflections

by

Mark A. Herkommer
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Modern Art
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Myriad colors or far too few
grace the canvas before my eyes.
Sounds break my tiny ear
and tug me nowhere.

Bland, greasy fast food
distends my gut; though I could eat a meal.
Fully rich with blending beauty
does the art by masters done,

Fills the chalice of my senses
and my family and my world.
In all of us a light beams outward
illuminating all that is old.

Cast not an eye to closely to
the still drying oil;
the chime is not yet still.
Like a vacuum ever drawing
  sucking dirt to small to see.

So does modern art show us
what is too personal to
notice in another.



Choose
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black ribbon slide out
from heavy clouds with metal ticks
grinding your length.
carry my thoughts away with rubber
high above these simple marks
passing over many blind eyes.
down i fly without
retrospective holding clear
peering forward deep in day.
whisking upward sunward starward
racing lightning bluing jag
a clap unheard since before.
at once clear icons blurred
and passed in colors beyond
my drinking eyes.
deeper pulled me to outward
illuminating a path
that lead in all directions.



Primal Stream 
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DEFINT A-Z 
I = 1                      ' I must start somewhere 
10 I = I + 2               ' I prefer to be odd 
FOR U = 3 TO SQR(I) STEP 2 ' U must be odd too 
IF (I MOD U) = 0 GOTO 10   ' if U are in me I'm not prime 
NEXT U                     ' so keep trying until U are done 
PRINT I; "is prime"        ' U are not in me so I am prime 
GOTO 10                    ' and I last forever 



sign
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be careful danger merge



6 senses
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forget not open hearing
that fails sight bearing
a touch of taste too little
to smell.



something
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