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Venom
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And superbly For the street-lights! Internally, I rise like myoId self To watch: and remember, ladies and gentlemen, We are looking at this match From the standpoint Oftonight Alone. Swarm over him, my joy, my laughter, my Basic Life Force! Let your bright sword-arm stream Into that turgid hulk, the worst Ofme, growing: Get 'im, 0 Self Like a beloved son! One more time! Tonight we are going Good better and better we are going To win, and not only win but win Big, win big. venom [for William Haast] Forever, it comes from the head. Where does it end? In life-blood. All over it, in fact, like thrown Offand thrown-again light. There is little help For it, but there is some. The priest ofpoison: where is he? Who is His latest snake? How does he work? He has taken it all, brother, and his body lies With its hand in ice, in a lung Ofiron but at last he rises, his heart changing What the snake thought. Tooth-marks all over Him are chattering oflife, not death, not What God gave them. He shimmers With healing. He will lie down again With him the snake has entered. His blood will flow the length Ofthe veins of both. They will clasp arms and double-dream The Eye-Beaters) Blood) Victory) Madness) Buckhead and Mercy / 3I8 Ofthe snake in the low long smothering Sun. Look down! They stretch out giving And taking. Clouds offamily beat the windows Ofdoctors with their breath. Here lies The man made good by a hundred Bites. It is not God but a human Body they pray to: Turn the poison Round turn it back on itself0 turn it Good: better than life they whisper: Tum it, they hammer whitely: Turn it, turn it, Brother. Blood In a cold night Ofsomebody. Is there other Breath? What did I say? Or do? Mercy. MERCY! There is nothing, But did I do it? I did something. Merciful, merciful o God, what? And Am I still drunk? Not enough 0 Is there any light 0 where Do you touch this room? o father OfHeaven my head cannot Lift but my hand maybeNobody is breathing what weapon was it? Light smashes Blood / 3I9 ...