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    “Paper cuts.”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Aug 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    “Paper cuts.”

    We live by the light of shadows: Absent figures cut their silhouettes Behind Act V curtains, Where paper dolls flirt In the muted hush Of a stayquiet breeze; Pockets full of posies – Hands linked in mind and material marking boundaries I never knew how to find. (But Embankment was much sweeter when the busker sang that night). The skies fly by as painted scenes, Fat nimbus accumulating cumulo-witnesses To our wretched lovelorn dreams; Where the mushroom-cloudy heads
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    “Skyline.”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Oct 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    “Skyline.”

    The skyline is jagged with cranes – dipping fishing lines into tracheal tunnels, to dredge compliments out of the brine and the brackish lachrymal funnels into which the day drains. I jump-cut trains: Keeping trust in transit like my life’s a montage edit to teach the new hearts Please Please Do not wish the world smaller. Because one day you’ll grow taller and that faraway tree you longed to climb will stop somewhere below your eyeline and the Eurostar will be just
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    if you take care of the art

    your sister, Life

    takes care of the human part.

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    - John Forbes, 'Lessons for Young Poets'

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