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Created on: May 20, 2007 Last Updated: May 22, 2007
Meet me in a graben valley,
between Olympus and the sea,
like smithies at Vulcan's finery
we'll forge Venus' lusty want.
I will lay you down in Hellespont,
on Etna's alluvial spill,
where our father's fathers lain in blinds,
napping flint to smite the beasts.
Let us press this flesh to tufa,
above Aegean's shore.
as we flick our tongues and cry glory
glory to a conquistador!
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