The intrepid lies calmly on the shores of prosperous fields of tobacco and corn Prosperous because of steel, cellulose meal, and phosphorous ore Inside is just an efficiently embodied universe of Nike Coke Converse Outside vacuumed by the dry cleaners, rolling steamers, with just a handful of levers Clean, polished -- hands, bickering like two male bamboons over who'll get the food and the shift Razor blades shine as the divine start to draw red lines across the authoritarian rift Intrepid creeps across shortlived DMZ loaded with intelligency and a SERINade of potency Loud speakers dare to glare that we're all in free, fall, but it's fair Filled with the blinding glare, drowning the aberration in the bolts of bow's foundation crowning the navigation and not the critical creation, it fails to wash the grit from the creases in her fingertips soaked with the juices of life, mopping the deck after the first wave of loch ness' crave-treck Swallowing the steel of its own infrastructure it is blind to the rupture the bolt's heel severed in the keel, like a double edged bayonet, palmed, crushing, their blood rushing through history and into the fisherman's net Yes, this is, could be, just another two steps forward, for the golden fish to turn into a potato knish. 10/27/98 anthony