Copright Burgamy/Marcus/Rosenberger 1998
shiny on one side, dull on the other
(like Omar my long lost brother)
a skinny ribbon twisted here to sunder
some lady from japan left it lying under
a seat in the car where Rose laid her hand
so she pulled and pulled, the ribbon did expand
all crazy and wild this portable bramble
as big as her head and too floppy to handle
far better now than when it made music
 the tape just lays there, free of rhyme
 

plastic
elastic metal
thinner than hair, i think
how long is 45 minutes of magnetic tape?
Rose pulled it for quite some time
standing in the drive that sloped steeply
to the street at night, Rose
had time on her hands

Little shapes
aspiring to edges
wanting angles
firing up to true form
from polygons thru fractals
        to a petal
blood red and dripping dew
from a magnetic Rose
 

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