OIL BECOMING PEARL
 BECOMING OIL

Salar Mameni

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littoral   (ecology) 

to caress

to bounce

to repel

to reflect

the magnetic push and pull

where oil meets water

a zone of the seashore

of grease on a droplet

Extractivists wish for boundaries

of ancestors into pipes

they guide pungent liquefaction

just as

littoral law is

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the law of the leak

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the errant

Petrorefusal

law of

viscous error

enacting terror

littoral law is the law of error and the terror of the errant leak

Terror

into the heavens

offer the errant ancestors

pangs of  S M O K E

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knee deep into the sludge

an archeological site

a geological site

sludge swallowed bones, shells and planktons

she is a hired hand

2 hands

cemetery

sludge is a disorderly

in rubber gloves

Tentacular

feeling their way

like mollusks

in heavy metal costumes

history is tragically human

rubber gloves

zip ties

hazmat suits

buckets

measured through tools

history needs a womb

to turn matter into law

it is true

and the reflection is always beautiful

when her plastic gloves were devoured

by ancestral planktons

she went skinny dipping

She cupped her hands to hold up the mirror

between the land and sea

oil is a black mirror

inside was a rainbow

buttery in brine

&

fiery

a pearl is the tooth of the ocean

the oldest pearl history ate

5,500

of a skull

got stuck above the jaw

Common era

historical law of time

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P

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Deepest

Time

shell

oil

$79.85 per barrel

economic law of money

we look on …….

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