tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12994909599597044582024-03-05T19:25:09.388-08:00anniversary ceremonies (the things we cannot incinerate so we lie)poetry by p. l. thomasP. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.comBlogger296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-49404039581130677712014-12-24T07:07:00.001-08:002014-12-24T07:07:34.135-08:00Please visit Selected Poetry<a href="http://genius.com/Rem-sad-professor-lyrics">"Dear readers"</a>:<br />
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And very genuinely, thank you for reading.P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-83617983839261563602014-12-21T07:39:00.002-08:002014-12-21T07:39:43.097-08:00we all fail (you coming new to us)<span style="font-family: inherit;">we all fail (you coming new to us)</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">we</span> all fail</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">like</span> dying that’s what humans do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">of</span> course <span class="SpellE">i</span> have failed you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> you and you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> now you newly born</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">into</span> our congregation of humans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">despite</span> our best efforts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">we</span> will fail you too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">despite</span> my best intentions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> will fail you too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> this is not about that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">this</span> is about the promise you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>only</i></span><i> a handful of months with us<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>you</i></span><i> appear in my dream<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><i>i</i></span></span><i> do not know most of the people there<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>but</i></span><i> suddenly and for the very first time<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>you</i></span><i> begin to talk and then walk across the room<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>as</i></span><i> if those are the most natural things possible<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> that is what this is about</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> coming new to us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> filling our chests near to exploding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">with</span> all the possible and all to come</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> make us believe in who we can be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> make us want to be better people</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> make me believe in who <span class="SpellE">i</span> can be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> make me want to be a better person</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">it</span> is Friday evening and <span class="SpellE">i</span> ignore friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">to</span> sit on the couch you sleeping on my chest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">we</span> all fail</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">like</span> dying that’s what humans do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> living in the precious moment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">that’s</span> what you offer me in soft breaths</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">as</span> we beg you to say those first words</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">as</span> we coax you to crawl across the blanket</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">as</span> we cheer you standing to walk alone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> imagine you reading quietly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">playing</span> with words as children do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> lying on my chest us heart to heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> make me want to be a better person</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">there</span> us together silent and still</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">your</span> warm weight lifting us beyond dreams</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-55876947584883085702014-12-19T08:35:00.000-08:002014-12-19T08:52:26.843-08:00secrets between my granddaughter and me (watch out world)<span style="font-family: inherit;">secrets between my granddaughter and me (watch out world)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">my</span> daughter sends me a video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">of</span> my granddaughter sleeping</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">her</span> eyes are fluttering in dream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">her</span> mouth is working <span class="SpellE">working</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> the thing that hits me first</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">is</span> her pose there in her bassinet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">lying</span> flat on her back left arm raised</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">her</span> tiny fist clenched silent and defiant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<span class="GramE">on</span> the days <span class="SpellE">i</span> keep her we have read</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Marx, <span class="SpellE">Freire</span>, and <i><a href="http://zinnedproject.org/materials/the-john-carlos-story/" style="color: purple;">The John Carlos Story</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">we’ve</span> watched Ali and Baldwin on YouTube</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> listened to <a href="http://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/toni-morrison-the-white-gaze-race-and-writing/" style="color: purple;"><span class="SpellE">Morisson</span> on the white gaze</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">my</span> radical five-month-old granddaughter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">dreaming</span> wordlessly of the 1968 Olympics</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">already</span> announcing at the end of her tiny arm</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/ali-you-must-listen-to-me/" style="color: purple;">“You must listen to me! You must listen to me!”</a></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">I tell you miserable things after you are asleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://youtu.be/wg5geyUlU4Y" style="color: purple;">“Conversation 16,”</a> The National<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"> …<span class="GramE">the</span> loss of the moments of shared intimacy….The prospect of losing that made him saddest of all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/scheherazade-3" style="color: purple;">“Scheherazade,”</a> <span class="SpellE">Haruki</span> Murakami</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> come to you in your sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> do not know <span class="SpellE">i</span> am there</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> may not even want me here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">it</span> is dark & you lie under covers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">except</span> your bare left foot exposed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> imagine you in t-shirt & panties</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> recreate until my eyes adjust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">so</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> can watch the soft <span class="SpellE">rise&fall</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">most</span> wonderful you breathing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">with</span> daughter & granddaughter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">an</span> act of solemn & selfish love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> have done this often in silence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am not here to relish watching you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am here to tell you everything</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">even more than love all that <span class="SpellE">i</span> fear<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">with</span> you <span class="SpellE">imagination&recollection</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">are</span> impossible for me to separate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> have confessions bound by darkness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> could more easily hand you my bones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">than</span> lie to you or admit the naked truth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">so</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> come to tell you everything instead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">how</span> many nights may <span class="SpellE">i</span> take from you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">recognizing</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> deserve none of them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> begin certain my stories will never end</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><i>i</i></span></span><i> could spend every night watching<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>you</i></span><i> sleep & hoping <span class="SpellE">i</span> am welcome<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>in</i></span><i> the dreams that warm your heart…</i></span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-22991530237791234542014-12-15T11:30:00.000-08:002014-12-17T05:15:06.032-08:00rising sun, you (solstice)<span style="font-family: inherit;">rising sun, you (solstice)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Loving anybody and being loved by anybody is a tremendous danger, a tremendous responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">James Baldwin, <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/243016/james-baldwin-the-last-interview-by-james-baldwin" style="color: purple;">“Go the Way Your Blood Beats”</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">it</span> is mid-December</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">just</span> before daybreak</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">when</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> walk outside alone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">frost</span> and darkness coat the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">tilting</span> toward reorientation—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">we</span> will return again to Spring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">bare</span> black branches reach skeletal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">against</span> the pink-orange horizon’s glow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">this</span> coming sunrise of another day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> pause, a solstice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">in</span> this dimming fall of life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">chilled</span> by an inevitable winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am a man bound to dry words</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">now</span> suddenly warmed at my center</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">by</span> the wordlessness of memory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">radiating</span> bright white through me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">recalling</span> the scent of you near</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> if smell is our oldest sense</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">recollection</span> offers immortality</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>you</i></span><i> pull aside your hair revealing<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>the</i></span><i> curve of your neck there<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>brilliant</i></span><i> rising sun, you</i></span><br />
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P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-34853678889936606422014-12-12T10:07:00.004-08:002014-12-12T10:07:33.869-08:00the chemistry of my sorrow (skin&bone)<span style="font-family: inherit;">the chemistry of my sorrow (skin&bone)</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span class="GramE">that</span> at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Susan Sontag, <i><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/reborn/susansontag" style="color: purple;">Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963</a></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">[<span class="GramE">negative</span>: <a href="http://youtu.be/w8-egj0y8Qs" style="color: purple;">“<span class="SpellE">i</span> don’t want to get over you”</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">no</span> Garden of Eden my creation story</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">me</span> cast from Teflon + every repellent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">known</span> to human history</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">then</span> drawn physically + powerfully</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">to</span> the impossible compound you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">radium</span> + lanthanum + barium</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">if</span> not impossible at least unstable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">thus</span> eventually + predictably gone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">leaving</span> only this black hole my sorrow</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">[<span class="GramE">positive</span>: <a href="http://youtu.be/wg5geyUlU4Y" style="color: purple;">“you're the only thing I ever want anymore”</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="SpellE"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">bruised</span>&broken</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am risen now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">most</span> men offer you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">only</span> their hearts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> must confess</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> own me <span class="SpellE">skin&bone</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">if you take my hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">because</span> it is my hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">fingers</span> laced with fingers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> have taken everything</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-79039496381187763232014-12-10T07:11:00.003-08:002014-12-10T07:11:25.590-08:00They killed Gwen Stacy in the film too<span style="font-family: inherit;">They killed Gwen Stacy in the film too</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Everything I love is on the table.<br />Everything I love is out to sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://youtu.be/bFnA-8H-5lo" style="color: purple;">“Don’t Swallow the Cap,”</a> The National<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">I was a television version of a person with a broken heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://youtu.be/tCEr4XbyLR8" style="color: purple;">“Pink Rabbits,”</a> The National</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">O, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Gwen_Stacy_Died" style="color: purple;">Gwen, why did you have to die</a>?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why did you have to be blonde and <span class="GramE">beautiful,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">pale</span> stereotype of what a woman should be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And why, O, why did you love her, Peter?</span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This nerd-love for the unattainable girl?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like <a href="http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory/" style="color: purple;">Leonard and Penny on a cheap sit-com</a>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peter, O, Peter, <i><a href="http://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/authoritarian-v-authoritative-with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/" style="color: purple;">with great power</a></i> and all that…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pimply and scrawny, I guess, we hide in bedrooms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">with</span> Marilyn Monroe posters on our silent walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But good people, beautiful people never really die</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">in</span> three-color comic books or <span class="SpellE">technicolor</span> Hollywood films.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">O, Gwen, why did they take you from all of <span class="GramE">us,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">betray</span> us like our mirrors every single morning?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Forty years apart, I cry at your lifeless <a href="https://nerdgasmsblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/no13_gwen_stacy_comic.jpg" style="color: purple;">twisted pose</a>—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">frail</span> boy comic in hand, middle-aged man on the couch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://marvel.com/characters/54/spider-man" style="color: purple;">Spider-Man</a> or <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080678/" style="color: purple;">Elephant Man</a>—hearts are bound to love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> no superpower can ever defeat the space of you gone.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">O, Gwen, why did you have to die?</span></i></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-27789144403811573342014-12-07T08:00:00.003-08:002014-12-07T08:00:57.032-08:00train<span style="font-family: inherit;">train</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">when</span> you willingly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">& <span class="GramE">even</span> eagerly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">board</span> the train</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">destined</span> to derail</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">after</span> the crash</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">& <span class="GramE">dare</span> not mourn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">all</span> the casualties</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">because</span> we all know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> were in it for the ride</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">that</span> made your heart race</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">so you could feel alive</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-24190915487526579732014-12-03T12:45:00.000-08:002014-12-03T12:45:01.470-08:00rooms and spoons (i watch you with my fingertips and palm)rooms and spoons (<i>i watch you with my fingertips and palm</i>)<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">When I walk into a room<br />I do not light it up<br />Fuck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://youtu.be/N527oBKIPMc" style="color: purple;">“Demons,”</a> The National<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“The kiss had shaken me up so much I couldn’t think straight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">At the same time, my anxiety had turned into an anxiety quite lacking in anxiousness.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Library-Haruki-Murakami/dp/0385354304/" style="color: purple;">The Strange Library</a></i>, <span class="SpellE">Haruki</span> Murakami</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<span class="SpellE">i</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">gradually</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> have learned to hold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">bitter</span> tea in my mouth for the cold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">my</span> secret Southerner’s rebellion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">drinking <span class="SpellE">unsweet</span> tea as denial</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<span class="GramE">ii</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">when</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> play music for my <a href="http://plthomaspoetry.blogspot.com/2013/11/child-of-my-child-exponential-love.html" style="color: purple;">granddaughter</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> sing along to <a href="http://youtu.be/Jpz_gUyImhw" style="color: purple;">“Graceless”</a> badly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">she</span> pauses as only a four-month-old can</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">just</span> before her dark-eyed smile unhinges me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<span class="GramE">iii</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> walk into the room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am lying on the couch reading <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/MaddAddam-Maddaddam-Trilogy-Margaret-Atwood/dp/0307455483" style="color: purple;"><span class="SpellE">MaddAddam</span></a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">crying</span> so hard tears have pooled on my glasses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> that is not entirely true</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> do not walk into the room as <span class="SpellE">i</span> read</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">those</span> last pages through tears like circus mirrors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<span class="GramE">iv</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">last</span> night it is the same room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> the same couch where <span class="SpellE">i</span> am reading</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">about</span> a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Library-Haruki-Murakami/dp/0385354304/" style="color: purple;">strange library</a> and a boy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">saved</span> from a labyrinth of certain death</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">by</span> a transparent shape-shifting girl so beautiful</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">he</span> loses his heart the first time he sees her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">it</span> is a sad story about a reading room and loneliness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">pinning</span> me to the couch where <span class="SpellE">i</span> cannot talk to you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">because</span> the only rooms <span class="SpellE">i</span> have now are ones without you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> like the boy <span class="SpellE">i</span> am rescued and heartless and alone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<span class="GramE">v</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> wonder about the two of us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">in</span> a room perfectly dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">what</span> the curve of your neck</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">would</span> look like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">to</span> my lips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">what</span> my fingertips and palm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">would</span> see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">across</span> your hip bone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<span class="GramE">vi</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">spooning</span> in the wake of reading</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">we</span> talk about the books from the sad library</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> collected for you after you left me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">stacked</span> and silent and mostly hopeless</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><i>i</i></span></span><i> watch you with my fingertips and palm<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>wishing</i></span><i> that this were not yet another dream<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<span class="GramE">vii</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> have driven to Conyers, Georgia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">a</span> place <span class="SpellE">i</span> have never been</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> the details are vivid and clear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">as</span> if <span class="SpellE">i</span> have been there in real time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> of course are there as you often are</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">as</span> long as it is a dream and no real room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">your</span> disapproving mother watches from nearby</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> two of you indifferent as an avalanche</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(<span class="GramE">viii</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am dust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am whisper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am straw</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">unsweet</span> tea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> did not order</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-50445437549592020112014-11-18T18:54:00.004-08:002014-11-19T03:43:14.255-08:00phoenix (an inverted zombie life)phoenix (an inverted zombie life)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“Because,” said the hunger artist…“because I couldn’t find a food which tasted good to me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/kafka/hungerartist.htm" style="color: purple;">“A Hunger Artist,”</a> Franz Kafka<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“I was afraid, I'd eat your brains”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://youtu.be/wg5geyUlU4Y" style="color: purple;">“Conversation 16,”</a> The National<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am not interested in <span class="SpellE">arizona</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> another state altogether</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>resurrection</i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am hopeful that the part of me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">that</span> died can rise from the ashes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>resurrection</i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">it</span> is lonely living while dead inside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">no</span> urge to eat—an inverted zombie life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>resurrection</i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">this</span> state has no decayed flesh or moaning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">although the living somehow remain distant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>resurrection</i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">to</span> rise then in the arms of another entirely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> to resist feasting on her <a href="http://youtu.be/QvElMzWNJGc" style="color: purple;">skinny throat</a></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">resurrection</span></i></span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-46877560947508128442014-11-12T11:51:00.001-08:002014-11-12T11:51:13.102-08:00chalkchalk<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it was written in chalk on the sidewalk, i suppose,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">not chiseled in granite as i’d always believed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">winds and rain erase <i>i love you</i>’s in colored dust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">while gravestones weather generation after generation</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-65233854901987459422014-11-08T05:28:00.002-08:002014-11-09T04:53:38.594-08:00The Disciplines (all those terminal degrees)<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Disciplines (all those terminal degrees)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are from different times</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> different places,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> intersections and magnetism</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">are</span> beautiful narcotics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am now forced to be an archeologist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">of</span> my own dreams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">where</span> you come again and again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">offering</span> indifference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a different kind of discipline, then,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">because</span> it is not my field,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> even in my rare <span class="SpellE">dreamweaving</span>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a rank amateur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sleeping, I must not shout out your name</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">in</span> the middle of the night;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I must not fling back warmed covers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">leaping</span> up to run again to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But it is there I am disciplined, a Grand Master,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">a</span> Jedi, a ninja in all black,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">having</span> perfecting the nuanced art of lies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> deception—of not being me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The disciplines lead us to the inevitable, I suppose,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">of all those terminal degrees.</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-72551283247107700262014-10-13T05:11:00.000-07:002014-10-13T05:11:10.344-07:00i do not fall in love<span style="font-family: inherit;">i do not fall in love</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">I won't need any help to be lonely when you leave me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“Slipped,” The National</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> do not fall in love with perfect</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> did not fall in love to find your faults and fix you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> could make quite a list</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">of</span> all the ways you drove me mad again and again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> if we had negotiated on even one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> would have no longer been the you <span class="SpellE">i</span> love madly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and my disingenuous professions of love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">would</span> have been manipulations seeking <i>someone else</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><i>i</i></span></span><i> do not fall in love with perfect<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><i>i</i></span></span><i> did not fall in love to find your faults and fix you<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> so <span class="SpellE">i</span> must now face the ugliest truth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">wanting</span> as <span class="SpellE">i</span> do to change your mind about me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">realizing</span> as <span class="SpellE">i</span> do the you not wanting me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">is</span> the only you <span class="SpellE">i</span> have ever loved and always will</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-65982947791829576082014-10-10T11:51:00.004-07:002014-10-10T11:51:39.470-07:00lies, paralysis, & all the things we cannot recoverlies, paralysis, & all the things we cannot recover<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Yeah, I'm missing something<br /><span class="GramE">Abel,</span> my mind's gone loose inside the shell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“Abel,” The National<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> wake up in a bed of snakes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">assuming</span> that all the lies <span class="SpellE">i</span> live by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">have</span> been rendered real to cradle me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> first thing they all do is ask me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">with</span> their heads tilted just so “How do you feel?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">as</span> if they are intent on listening seriously</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">they</span> seem completely unaware of the snakes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">because</span> of course they too are magnificent liars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> no one acknowledges another’s bed of snakes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">this</span> is simply a ploy to allow a brief pause</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">before</span> they tell me the consequences of The Accident</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“The Accident,” they explain, “has left you paralyzed”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">as</span> if The Accident is a sentient creature like the snakes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> it is then <span class="SpellE">i</span> realize neither the snakes nor the paralysis</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">is</span> even close to the worst of this bed <span class="SpellE">i</span> have made to lie in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">you</span> see the snakes are simply all those lies come alive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> paralysis is the manifestation of the inner me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> paralysis <span class="SpellE">i</span> have covered in a hissing bed of lies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> worst of it all is something only <span class="SpellE">i</span> can tell them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">which</span> is that <span class="SpellE"><i>i</i></span><i> have no memory of my past life at all</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">with</span> this their heads tilt again and they declare</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Ah, well, we are not sure about the paralysis,” they admit,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span class="GramE">but</span> we can certainly help you rebuild your past!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> so they begin to tell me everything they can offer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">strangers</span>, family, and friends are all the same to me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> they each sit patiently one by one beside my bed of snakes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">telling me stories in no particular order with no clear value</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">paralyzed</span> and lying in a bed of snakes <span class="SpellE">i</span> know mostly one thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">something</span> or more importantly someone remains lost in this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>something</i></span><i> or someone <span class="SpellE">i</span> can never recover</i> is my final fate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">knowing</span> there is a vast and precious unknown <span class="SpellE">i</span> cannot recover</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">leaves</span> me paralyzed and hopeless as a snake in a foot of snow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">wishing</span> to recover the unknown and all the sadness it brings</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-55529116695838393522014-10-09T13:10:00.000-07:002014-10-09T13:10:03.394-07:00polish (this did not happen)polish (this did not happen)<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Then, without hesitation, she grasped <span class="SpellE">Tengo’s</span> hand, and looked up into his face….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Then she suddenly let go his hand, and with the hem of her skirt flaring, she trotted out of the classroom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>1Q84</i>, <span class="SpellE">Haruki</span> Murakami</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> prefer black nail polish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">or</span> shades so dark they appear black</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">although</span> “prefer” understates</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">this</span> fascination and my jealousy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> then <span class="SpellE">i</span> see your most desired hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> polish a pinkish-orange <span class="SpellE">i’d</span> call melon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">so</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> ask you if <span class="SpellE">i</span> may hold your hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">each</span> nail like a precious Jordan almond</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> you smile raising your hands to me sighing</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<span class="GramE">it’s</span> been so long since we’ve held hands”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">•</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">it</span> wasn’t you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">this</span> did not happen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> hand and nail polish more pink than orange</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">merely</span> a passing car and someone <span class="SpellE">i</span> do not know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> then the fist of remembering you pounding in my chest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">while <span class="SpellE">i</span> alone in my car drove down this black highway</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-58198037201564169902014-10-08T13:22:00.002-07:002014-10-08T13:22:37.336-07:00diligence (skeleton key)<span style="font-family: inherit;">diligence (skeleton key)</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Perhaps an even more distressing prospect for <span class="SpellE">Habara</span> than the cessation of sexual activity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span class="GramE">however</span>, was the loss of the moments of shared intimacy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/scheherazade-3" style="color: purple;">“Scheherazade,”</a> <span class="SpellE">Haruki</span> Murakami<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">I'm having trouble inside my skin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">I tried to keep my skeletons in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://youtu.be/eZlM6dIny0o" style="color: purple;">“Slipped,”</a> The National</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">gradually</span> and with reluctance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> have whittled away at my own resolve</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">to</span> fulfill your wishes when you left</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> then as <span class="SpellE">i</span> am walking to my morning class</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">a</span> student in front of me tells another goodbye</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">saying</span> <i>your name</i> rattling in my chest like a can</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">these</span> hauntings erode my diligence to your requests</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">to</span> live as if we never were and never will be again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> stand on the precipice of this my toes curled at the edge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">•</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am reading a new <span class="SpellE">Murkami</span> short story</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> it is toward the end when <span class="SpellE">i</span> realize</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">he</span> is writing about the thing eroding me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> fueling my constant melancholy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">because</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> cannot share this story with you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> thing that matters most about all that matters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">everything</span> is reduced in magnitude without you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">dimmed</span> dulled and nearly erased except what could be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> there is the limit of my diligence hidden in bone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">•</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">when</span> they dismember me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> skeleton key will be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> thing they come to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> thing that can set me free</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">opening</span> the door with a skeleton key</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">that</span> allows me to be and to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">•</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><i>i</i></span></span><i> hear your name and <span class="SpellE">i</span> recall your hands<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>making</i></span><i> me the happiest and saddest <span class="SpellE">i</span> can be</i></span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-51431538282336574522014-09-18T13:15:00.003-07:002014-09-18T13:15:53.684-07:00tracing (everything that matters)<span style="font-family: inherit;">tracing (everything that matters)</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">tracing</span> everything that matters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">took</span> him less time than anyone imagined</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">everything</span> that matters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">had</span> been with him forever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">shapeless</span> until he recognized it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> then wordless as an outline</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">boundary</span> of everything that matters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">boundary</span> of everything that is missing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">•</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>sometimes</i></span> or to be honest <i>often</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">he</span> closed his eyes to trace the space</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">he</span> knew like a recurring dream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">or</span> the echo of a shout from a well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>before</i></span><i> she dove forever into the abyss of </i>gone<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>she</i></span><i> told him that she did not trust herself<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>as</i></span><i> if that could ease the longing<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>as</i></span><i> if that should ease the longing<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>as</i></span><i> if that would ease the longing</i></span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-24346243738398409312014-09-11T12:42:00.001-07:002014-09-11T12:42:44.277-07:00impending doom<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">impending</span> doom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">of</span> all the special powers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">he</span> would have chosen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">this</span> was not the one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> he had from the beginning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> ability to hear impending doom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> soundtrack of his life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> as always in these cases</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">with</span> <a href="http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2012/07/with-great-power-comes-great.html" style="color: purple;">great power</a> comes a great problem</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>he</i></span><i> never knew for whom the doom tolled<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">impending</span> doom subtle and pervasive</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">surrounded</span> everything he did each day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">fading</span> away before swallowing him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> then as these tales seem to go</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">he</span> was swept away by the one he loved</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">complicating</span> the lull of impending doom</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">in</span> time of course and we cannot be shocked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">she</span> set him aside and moved on without him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">leaving only the now much louder ring of doom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">some</span> things take great time and great distance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> alone one day his mind drifted again to her</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">swimming</span> up through the recollection of a dream</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>he</i></span><i> finds her alone in a dusky stand of trees<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>and</i></span><i> she turns to him opening her mouth<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>her</i></span><i> voice clear and sharp as impending doom<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-75181283980853854892014-09-08T05:53:00.002-07:002014-09-08T05:53:43.692-07:00dislocation<span style="font-family: inherit;">dislocation</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> wrestle with the moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> think of you</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">your</span> skin in moonlight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> curve of your shoulder in silhouette</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">these</span> dislocate me because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> am nowhere without you</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">•</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">dislocated</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> rise imagining</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">there</span> must be another world</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">where</span> you will hold me again</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">where</span> a mother and child pass by</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and everyone pauses to bow recognizing</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">this</span> above all else <i>this</i> is the reason</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-38645421603429764032014-09-03T06:11:00.001-07:002014-09-03T06:11:22.382-07:00blue blood<span style="font-family: inherit;">blue blood</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">when</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> read horseshoe crabs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">all</span> have blue blood</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> wondered why every human</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">couldn’t</span> be born rich as well</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-16193569563265018132014-09-02T12:58:00.001-07:002014-09-02T12:58:09.499-07:00unchosenunchosen<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">I know someday you'll have a beautiful life<br />I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why<br />Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://youtu.be/cs-XZ_dN4Hc" style="color: purple;">“Black,”</a> Pearl Jam</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> can’t help myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">drawn</span> again and again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">to</span> the film <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045658/" style="color: purple;">Silver Linings Playbook</a></i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">like</span> <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125439/" style="color: purple;"><span class="SpellE">Notting</span> Hill</a> </i>it calls to me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">against</span> my reservations</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">about</span> the unreality of pretty people</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> offer this as explanation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">recognizing</span> it likely fails</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">as</span> justification absolving me:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>near</i></span><i> the end after the dance<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tiffany believes she is the <span class="SpellE">unchosen</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>running</i></span><i> from the hall crying<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>and</i></span><i> then Pat chases her<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>asking</i></span><i> her to read one more letter<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>when</i></span><i> Tiffany realizes she is the chosen<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">that</span> for me is almost everything</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> worst being the <span class="SpellE">unchosen</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> the wonderful possibility being the chosen</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> forgive everything else untrue</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">about</span> the film and pretty people</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">parading</span> before us as if such is possible</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">because</span> you see it is not pretty we want</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">those</span> who are the discarded and <span class="SpellE">unchosen</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">but to be that one true and only chosen</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-31944961502226628502014-08-25T10:02:00.002-07:002014-08-25T10:02:20.738-07:00the moon is nothing<span style="font-family: inherit;">the moon is nothing<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“There must be something in him, something fundamental, that disenchanted people.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki,’ he said aloud. I basically have nothing to offer to others.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you think about it, I don’t even have anything to offer myself.”</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Colorless-Tsukuru-Tazaki-Years-Pilgrimage/dp/0385352107" style="font-family: inherit;">Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, Haruki Murakami</span></span></div>
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</span>P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-26477230685482672752014-08-13T09:03:00.003-07:002014-08-13T09:03:14.248-07:00dark chocolate<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">dark chocolate</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage</i>, Haruki Murakami</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i am standing at the counter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">of a Starbucks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">in a Barnes & Noble</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i came here to buy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Colorless-Tsukuru-Tazaki-Years-Pilgrimage/dp/0385352107" style="color: purple;">new colorless Murakami</a></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">my small acts of happiness</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">there i see no dark chocolate bars</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i used to buy for you at another Starbucks</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">that absence like the hole</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">resting in my chest</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">where you used to be</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">like a new book or square of dark chocolate</span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-35291436239755477112014-08-01T09:13:00.003-07:002014-08-01T09:13:44.226-07:00spoken (we swallow words like cyanide)<span style="font-family: inherit;">spoken (we swallow words like cyanide)<br /></span><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“We know of course there’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://realvoice.blogspot.com/2004/11/arundhati-roy-2004-sydney-peace-prize.html" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="SpellE">Arundhati</span> Roy (2004)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> did not want to be the one to say it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">of</span> course</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">we</span> swallow words like cyanide</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">inoculating</span> ourselves against the world</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">never</span> spoken</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">never</span> thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">never</span> done</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">never</span> shunned</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">these</span> are the poisons that paralyze us</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">leaving</span> us mute and fixed like an accusing stare</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">our</span> sanctified commitment to silence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> the <i>busy <span class="SpellE">busy</span> <span class="SpellE">busy</span></i> hustling of monks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">filled</span> nearly to bursting with all the unspoken</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">a</span> smile painted across our closed lips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">we</span> imagine other worlds where holding hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> laughing light up the rooms where everyone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> mean everyone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">talks</span> freely and often like rising balloons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">and</span> huddled children so excited they can barely breath</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><i>i</i></span></span><i> did not want to be the one to say it<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>of</i></span><i> course because now that <span class="SpellE">i</span> have spoken<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><i>i</i></span></span><i> have made you uncomfortable turning away<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>to</i></span><i> find that place without me or my words</i></span></div>
P. L. Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104914800533779546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299490959959704458.post-57262262099484573662014-07-23T07:55:00.002-07:002014-07-23T07:58:22.170-07:00teleportation, time travel, & dreams (the empiricists have no clothes)<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">teleportation</span>, time travel, & dreams (the empiricists have no clothes)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">only</span> two weeks on this planet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">my</span> granddaughter appears again in a dream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">me</span> now 1500 miles away from her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>in</i></span><i> my absence she laughs for the first time<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE"><i>in</i></span><i> my dream <span class="SpellE">i</span> am holding her and she laughs<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">teleportation</span> and time travel are not whimsy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">resigned</span> to our science fictions and fantasies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">but</span> the devices of our dreams reaching always</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">•</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="SpellE">i</span> drop into sleep and then into REM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">where</span> time and distance disappear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">because</span> the heart is a powerful engine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">there</span> <span class="SpellE">i</span> return to you again and again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">to</span> relive in order to live and breath awake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">discovering in those unconscious recreations</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="GramE">the</span> empiricists have no clothes</span></div>
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