It contained nothing zero air
refuse of some just doom: a container
by Max Factor, or Lorna Doone --

one if by night two if by day but
no soap powder or incense an empty
vault no bills gold or silver a container
of bull leather, or plastic molded;

A lot less said the better but no
a lot more inside in fact a lot

How Bout That -- fighting ghosts again,
favorite preoccupation since CREATION

We would know platinum-covered walls
and would fill fill with our remains.

Page 17(Early Poems[1969])

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