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    “Growth”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Feb 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    “Growth”

    If my fortunes should one day fade, And experience dull the sharp edge of fame, And popularity precipitate out of its false solution To rub salt into the wounds of life’s insults – When the rest of the world is still waiting to win this game, Just give me an orchard of my very own, With trees I can call by name. A living database of the ones who stayed, The ones I helped raise, Even the ones who got away: Each one a monument to the moment we gave ourselves the permis
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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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    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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