| Sefronia
-- After Asklepiades After Kafka
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Sefronia shook the black
cat's bone at me
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And I was only wax in
the spell of fire
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Oh my coal black nigger,
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When black coal burns
it ripens into a rose
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She pried the whip out
of her master's hand
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And lashed at her own
skin
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So she'd be master,
how could she know
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This was just a dream
born,
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Of a new knot in the
bullwhip
Sefronia --
The King's Chain
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I couldn't buy you with
a hundred cattle
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But you hike in shells
and feathers
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Up the African beach,
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I am king here, tied
to this hut by the King's chain
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My power's like a tree
and green taboo to me
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The chameleon lies in
your dusty fingers,
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And the blue flies circle
your head like stars;
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Jump into me now, I
must not see the water,
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Let me sip weakness
from your dark nipples
    
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