dcx.
Everything a book
or booked (say
so). Inebriated in

a safe environment
(kept checking back).
Never really a

lively concern: for-
ever forthcoming. Everything
banked on a

single outcome, lonely
pod.

dcix.
No history. Not
enough to skin
a cat. On

point, the off-
chance last note
denies denial, hopes

sensible plans can
be agreed on
(ritual bodies show

signs of being
tortured). An aerial
bombardment begins. Most

unsuccessful reign. A
vast recourse to
paper. In with

a bang.

dcviii.
Fought on playing
fields & never
tired. Snoops allowed

an out of
court. No news
no news &

thus suspicious: earnest
headlines will not
stick. Stuck automatic

wordplay dead end
job. A vent
abuts memorial. Snow

piles up.