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Jungle
I.
the beat
the beat
that concrete beat
(an urban sound
of traffic lights
and city heat
pulsing round
a city night
and white
noise)
the throbbing motion
of moving feet
that solid moment
that tribal beat
insistent beat
the smell of
rising
rival
heat
it steams
it stamps
the jungle
(and the jungle laws)
the fittest survive
win the prize
feast on meat
and always multiply
and in the background
through the foreground
as you spin about
a dangerous playground
the beat
that solid
persistent
concrete
insistent
all-pervading
brain-invading
animal-necessitating and sensorily dominating
pounding
confounding
always sounding
ever hounding
ever rising
BEAT
II.
fingertips
remote from alcohol confounded brain
drunken darkened fumblings
words inane
broken zip
skin nipped
(neither sure of others name
neither sure of rules of game)
dim-lit room
gutter drips
because of
blockage in the drain
solitary sounds: beyond the breaths
a single car
rattles window-pane
a lonely siren howls
a slinking tabby mews and prowls
(hands slip
thread rips)
crash
smash
splash
bodies collide
senses ride
upon
meshed lips
rotating hips
sweat drips
in the empty, transient
hours before the dawn
a conscience strips
down to the bone
to obtain
something best explained
as a temporary fix
--George Selmer
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