Stacked tonal asperations. 
The luminous patina of an excommunicant / He thought about SciFi from the  Sixties / Of a bright, lit, obvious labyrinth / All of his life as if he  were a mercurial creature / As if meeting death half-way by making connections / The kind of greenish pallor you’d desired — 
 
He thought about SciFi from the Sixties / As the furry chestnut shadow turns from the window / Fighting the relative fight to endure / His coat with his  assassin’s bullet, effluvia and life / All of his life as if he were a mercurial  creature / Etc.