Trakl flashback
July 29, 2009
Written by the Trakl simulator, not TRAKL HIMSELF:
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The mother with the burning gong
seeks the poppy or the wolf.
The burning temple
wastes a smoky guitar
or a candle.
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Uproar.
The child bears a bloom.
O man!
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The mouldering heart.
The mother trembles.
The nocturnal whore poisons the sick whore.
A child beckons the smoky sister.
The pond signals whenever
the gong crosses the sea.
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Friend,
the seething monk-girl signals.
The raging laughter destines the
moldy monk-girl. And worse,
a waxing wolf humbles a child.
The ruinous sister embitters the brooding angel.
The broken river petrifies the blue sister.
The gentle mask.
Cower, you trembling poppy.
A rotten whore or a raging wolf
violates the darkling snow.
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Weep, you evil poppy.
The pure silence violates a child.
The harp.
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The seething poppy moulders.
A falling wood drinks the monk.
A lonely storm petrifies a moon.
The trembling guitar hisses.
Signal, you whispering moon.
A brooding rain cowers.
O man!
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The gate:
a barren poppy dwells.
Wake, you weeping lover:
the moon.
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Dwell, oh smoky gong.
The lover seeks a shepherd.
The crimson race wounds the smoky angel.
The gate:
the naked monk glistens whenever
the island rustles.
The golden voice mourns the trembling child.
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Friend:
the evil guitar with
the weeping gong.
Beautiful.
The corrupt poppy or
a drinking wood dies.
Beautiful.
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A wind.
The solemn pond or the guitar
mourns the darkening woman
or the fiery mother.
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A waxing child signals. And worse,
a golden wood violates the pond.
The flaming lover breaks through
the guitar or the chestnut.
O man!
The boat awaits the glistening storm.
A ruinous city cowers.
A wolf devours a golden rain.
A flaming bloom arises after
the smoky star sings.