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Kenneth Slessor - Fixed Ideas
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RANKS of electroplated cubes, dwindling to glitters, 
 Like the other pasture, the trigonometry of marble, 
 Death`s candy-bed. Stone caked on stone, 
 Dry pyramids and racks of iron balls. 
 Life is observed, a precipitate of pellets, 
 Or grammarians freeze it into spar, 
 Their rhomboids, as for instance, the finest crystal 
 Fixing a snowfall under glass. Gods are laid out 
 In alabaster, with horny cartilage 
 And zinc ribs; or systems of ecstasy 
 Baked into bricks. There is a gallery of sculpture, 
 Bleached bones of heroes, Gorgon masks of bushrangers; 
 But the quarries are of more use than this,— 
 Filled with the rolling of huge granite dice, 
 Ideas and judgments: vivisection, the Baptist Church, 
 Good men and bad men, polygamy, birth-control. . . . 
 Frail tinkling rush 
 Water-hair streaming 
 Prickles and glitters 
 Cloudy with bristles 
 River of thought 
 Swimming the pebbles— 
 Undo, loosen your bubbles
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