Song of the Andoumboulou: 266
Nathaniel Mackey
—book of the there we’d have been— We remained entranced by words positing a world beyond their reach, that words don’t go there said with words. They were speaking for the we that was no we they knew. It wasn’t music went where words were unable, it was aroma consubstantial with crease and declivity, the beloved’s cleavage’s remit… There was a we so whole it couldn’t be added to, the lover and the beloved’s extrapolative extent. An arche- type, some had said, auguring more, a certain polis bound up in it, sort-of more than certain, the we or the would-be we we’d be. Doubletalk ob- tained its lease. It felt good to be where words did not go
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