Nine Word Finger Exercise

When we were young, we squandered love
as if the recesses of the spiralling universe
would be forever bright with our hot music.

How could we see in tomorrow's dark mirror
the shadowed destroyer -- musky, vile -- purposed
from the beginning that our one body, future-

flung would split, shatter, rattle, retreat
ponderous and emptied, lone as a hermit
away from the chattering, clap-trap world.

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