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The dam Bellona / littered / her eyeless offspring / Kriegsopfer / upon the pavements of Vienna / Sparkling precipitate / the spectral day / involves / the visionless obstacle / this slow blind face / pushing / its virginal nonentity / against the light / Pure purposeless eremite / of centripetal sentience / Upon the carnose horologe of the ego / the vibrant tendon index moves not / since the black lightning desecrated / the retinal altar / Void and extinct / this planet of the soul / strains from the craving throat / in static flight upslanting / A downy youth's snout / nozzling the sun / drowned in dumbfounded instinct / Listen! illuminati of the coloured earth / How this expressionless "thing" blows out damnation and concussive dark / Upon a mouth-organ