decrepitness 

there is a surly decrepitness 

                              excrescence 

                                                 the New World has no sense or appreciation of the Old World  European  Asian  decrepitude mouldering sepia-coloured 

                                                 sublime

                                                          spectacular 

                                                                       sensual 

                                                                                  ugly  

a perversion that ceases at cold waters edge and cannot swim or drift to escape 

ripening Age and Decay has its place 

                                        though sees no welcome on these electric blue shores

which are too inclined to fiction

                                 bizarre mythologies 

                                                        false prophets 

                                                                        to bother with its Import and Utter Reality

 

the New World willfully averts its eyes refuses to look back and fills them instead with preternatural Longing  Promise Delusion 

               if a defiant word is breathed for black Legitimacy it risks in no uncertain terms bitter excoriation and defilement

 

This is the New World

It will accept nothing Old in it

 

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