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Writing from the stemistry lab

Southern trees bear strange fruit

by Christopher Barnes

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Bent backwards from the factory,
Where fantastical architects
Bring off sky-dyed eyes
On Barbie-ribboned foetuses,
Monotonously trumped IQs
And unlame purse-touching.

From the monstrous bucket
The muffled mismatched
     — Africa brown
Antityped with cells
That evolve into a lynch-rope.