Long Sentences

Shame dies
when sighs insist 
that cause is a story
told for guilty effect.

The world could be full of sin
or scorpions could be scorpions
on fox backs in on the Colorado River
or alone in the teeth
of the canyon's grand deserted piano.

Preposition is not connotation --
next to fails the fault test
as earthquakes take
without regard to who or what's above
and without fail 
with or without Voltaire.