Mt. Qaf

(pic by lanny quarles on fb)

Orchestral Halloween playlist.

1.
things we cannot CHEAT
while waiting the stars’ HALLO

our gold not ELFIN
our final songs all ALIKE

god our heroines were TONED

2.
the bitter pain STANK
bond of mortise & TENON
cathode & ANODE

a map of lightnings NODAL
as if each defeat a KNELL

3.
the sorrows of MAGMA
for the sky no ALIAS

who bells the GIANT

falling-down candle-lit MANSE
between pages one ASTER

4.
confession too WORDY
more Rotas this OPERA
clownier RERUN

if I promised I was DRUNK
no more to be well-loved YANKS

5.
the next time I LEAPT
on a mount of EMERY

the rest is AESOP

came in looking for some PROSE
we take gelt from all the TYPES

6.
songs on which I PORED
(the poetic OMEGA)
so no more their REIGN

though I’m tomato’d & EGGED
by my own taste * they’re DANDY

7.
blurry tints of PRANG
& the steered car half goes ROGUE
no bard so AGILE

nor so well furnished with NULLS
as I wend through marching GEESE

8.
a road map of thin SCARS
bleach of the largest CORAL

infirm ARENA
in which to manage my RANTS
& my green flash-cop car SLASH

9.
dark outcomes OGLED
meal of a single GUAVA
rig could be LAXER

we await the next EVENT
in our circle game of DARTS

10.
ever have PARIS
Accord * love tears us APART

red fills the RADAR

to the last live IRAQI
flesh from bones these khamsins STRIP

11.
coffee spied TEPID
as the shores of zoom ERODE
fortress not POLAR

patriarch in IDAHO
suiting up for the DEROS

12.
now use subway STRAP
deteriorating TROVE

poet fond of ROLES
any part of this AVERT

not even minor PESTS

13.
venture NASAL
bones deserted AGORA
narcolept SONIC

should the question ARISE
herbal tea with bingo LACED

14.
on the corner CADGE
as we search space ALIEN
bling * snake eyes DICED

home-made cortado * watch GEESE
blank about war not ENDED

15.
big-eyed new FACES
no Aceldamas ABASH

wrath of gray CACTI

polymer of an ESTER
hottest new trend in the SHIRE

16.
washing machine BEEPS
in cyberspace you EXERT
not that * but EERIE
simulacra with a PRICE
growing struggle just to STEER

17.
what the stars ALLOT
yet these myriad paths, LEAVE

the case for LAGER

the twilight of comb-OVERS
strange oracle seems way TERSE

18.
Blatant Beast’s BADDY...
no metric we’d all AGREE

meanwhile sky-DRAMA

philosopher might DEMUR
whether thole the coming YEARS

19.
emperor of RISKS,
each contingency INANE:
reach for SAMOA
might as well * our grassy KNOLL
just the first of umpteen SEALS

20.
gravamen is BLISS
this gyring, pustulent LIGHT,
styrofoam IGLOO

all inquirent can be SHOWN
news that fits on one flat STONE

21. hasyan yecya NESTS
that fetch a little EXTRA

but vellocet STAID

i return to your sweet TRILL
obols rejected, SADLY

22.
suicide by PATCH
utterly TralfamADORE

whale-iv’ry TOWER

see what adopting the CREED
of pirates does to cranched HERDS

23.
a terrier GRABS

someday Liberty RELIT
not by wish ALONE
nor cyber-slash-soma BINGE
but Reason’s cinnamon STEED

24.
don’t know here’s HADES
of Grosz’s clowns * turned AGENT
yellow laughter DENSE
in the antics that ENSUE
one must have cobwebs of STEEL

25.
river of blood, DIRT
demarcates, INERT
base of this REVUE

the parable is TRUER
as the will to reap is STERN

26.
catalog of LARDS
galaxy’s dim arms ADORE
another ROYAL
another language you can DRAWL

catch the only thing that SELLS

27.
mind vellocet RUSTS
en route to grokking ULTRA
generic is STEAL
dratsing our liquescent TRAIT
with residue rust-SALTY

28.
otchkies claim AMISS
which the devil’s joke makes MUNCH
as said my INTRO
yarons ago climbing SCREE
wall in my ev’ryday SHOES

29.
labyrinth AMPLE
for the burrowing MORON
slaughters fit to PRINT
groupthink falls on a LONER
since my latest blog ENTRY

30.
cult in the dank LOFTS
intoxicated OWLET
follow’s Pun’s FLUTE

& each glittering TETRA
self-hooked virulent fish STEAK

31.
parable one BLABS
despair’s shovel or LADLE
pyramid AD HOC

in the antelucan BLOAT
that’s likewise twilight of SECTS

32.
pumpkin spice VALET
for the reasons shared ABOVE
science of LOSER
world cataclysm EVENS

tomorrow’s response is TERSE

33.
variance ACTED
on the party of the CLONE
fetus on TOAST
will uncivil war ENSUE
or past example DETER

34.
to name this SPASM
as we named, unnamed PLUTO

spiralled the AURAS
& whatever was at STAKE
seas parried without MOSES

35.
when the typo POSTS
played by the Brubeck OCTET
for the ears of STONE

& I do not know what TENSE
we are in * Joe Christ * Joe STEEL

36.
to whims we CATER
watch arctic forests AFIRE
O thorn TIARA
Earth will not know how we ERRED
only, she was not READY

37.
wage ebony NAILS
on this etheric ANNAL
not to fire INURE

& if fardels loom too LARGE
tell the rising main i SLEEP

38.
No boob saps a bonobo.

Les filles de illighadad.

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