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Uproot the trees

                  Uproot the Trees


                  Uproot the trees
                  whose branches offend
                  the long, strong dapple-fangled neck of Thisbe,
                  whose apples tempt the snake-charmed arm of man.
                  Strip the bark from babbling birch
                  before the woads of time can synthesize.
                  And lest the plough shall yield
                  the tantrums of oblivion.
                  On distant hills of wisdom's home
                  Beneath the vagrancy of salt,
                  Issue mandrills to the pitless dome
                  where angry stamens stamp their pitch .
                  The oak, the ash, the lupine larch
                  In spirit of the bygone straws
                  may unfold the scrolls
                  but should the struggle gain?
                  For even Dvornik
                  in his double egg-cup days
                  knew the folly of duplicit gripes -
                  Twice, though once enticed by kelp.
                  And see the weeping willow how she pinks
                  when clustered in the void of prancing irks,
                  And ask not whom the creeping shadows jolt.
                  The coconut, twice shy, en masse
                  will triumph o'er the spiteful morn
                  and though the roots may wither,
                  The fruits shall multiply apace.

                  Uproot the trees

                  But never interject past hindrances.

                  


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