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Ars Poetica with Backup from The Clark Sisters

after “Is My Living in Vain?”, 1980

Karisma Price

Today 5:00 am

Illustration by Tim Robinson.

Bluesky

There is always music to be written.After all, life is the sweat of Twinkie Clark,the product of music, the skilled controlof your organ despite the kinesis of memory.Like an X-ray, an audience will always focuson the white center. The barrier betweena bee and its honey stomach.Somewhere between allergy, elegy.Somewhere between cascade, casket,yet I live, the middle ground of gospeland gossip, wiping off sweat, smearing a kiss.My mother pronounces killed and kiltthe same way between wiping off sweatand smearing a kiss. You can be putin the ground for what comes outyour mouth. Today I searched under the pewsof my life for loose change. Tell me, congregation,did you give with the fullnessor the foolness of your heart?

Karisma Price


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