Tag: Self
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Edges for Disco Dancing
I found a mirror, proceeded to hold it like a plot device And marched the hallway to reflect characters. The innocent acknowledged their bodies With glances they placed on teachers too. A charlatan crossed their presence Beyond the mirror’s glass, By pausing below the light shade Dirty with dead insects and dust, Casting their shadow …
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Growing Old and Age and Entropy
Keys left in the lock, location named after its occupant, to expose identity. 3D smelled of wood chips, inscribed on 2D’s door were the words Bridges for Trolls. Keys jangled like a rusted bell as the door opened and revealed the sigh of relief. Losing the mechanism used to unlock self, moments to make the…
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aver(sion)age
Biological ramparts furnished a maze with trick mirrors, archetypes formatted to skin sacks stiffened their long faces And leveraged lips quivering, But a boy brought his stuffed rabbit along, down the hallway, including Tall glass, he dragged his bunny by the ears and mopped the floors clean of dust. Average, begins the dust bunny tomb.…
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stories from yesterday
Permanent Capital I Is debt. Earthworms As brass hooks Get it? Brass hooks As earthworms In the Dirt. Trash-can has a name Structured phonically By what’s inside. Broken glass bottles share The mirror’s aspirations. First Among Equals, is the impression Of others. Counterpart to Permanence, designed to Expire After permanence disappears. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Poet sat at…