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LOVE JUICE

  

Love  juice, semen, saliva, blood,

water and molten glass and tin,

refugees weeping ruts into mountains,

a rain that renders a fertile mud.

  

Fluid is virtuous, all is a flux.

Blood given at birth is licked by the worm.

Venus was born from the inanimate sea.

The wave lips round her, it curls up and sucks.

   

Alan Marshfield

   

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