The 4 Gone Conclusions

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The 4 gone conclusions

went north, west,

south then east

They carried arms
for Venus

into the belly

of the beast

Where fact and fiction

were the main event

Billed as:

Be flexible

or get bent

Fact hit north

fiction hit south

fact took it in the gut

fiction bled in his mouth

The 4 gone conclusions

sat in the east

They cheered for the angel

and cheered for the beast

The four horsemen divided unevenly

Three rode in daylight

one rode his night mare

They quivered

with quips on their lips

and gave us

the apocalypse 

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

THE 4 GONE CONCLUSIONS

is the copyrighted property of

LCSoL

This page is dedicated to

Jorge Luis Borges,
to whom I have returned
nervously

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