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Showers of droplets
Break in sparks
On moonlit glass
Their wintery shine
Mirrored to a gaze
Spears of ice
Melting in the night
Trailing windows
With silver beads
(c) 2010 Alex Newman
Contrary to the belief,
                              a dying star doesn't feel pain,
                        the fire in its core sings a song
                                        of liberation, all along.
                                                in a galaxy distant
                                                         ­ it simultaneously takes birth

                                               Death is not the end of a star,
                                                           ­  yet another beginning it is
!
how many short happy silences
live in this house;
fathomless, dense, eternally humming cosmos.
How many times
Can one say
I  m  s  o  r  r  y
before
I  m   s   o   r   r   y
becomes
I      m      s      o      r      r      y
nothing more than
I            m            s            o            r      ­      r            y
individual letters
I                  m                  s                 ­ o                  r                  r                  y
That­ hold no meaning?
I was in an art museum once.  
I saw a black and white picture hanging on the wall.
It was of a potato.  Nothing else.  Just a potato.
I was angry at first. I had just meandered through an exhibit of miniature houses that must have taken hundreds of hours to complete and a crazy amount of attention to detail.
This person took a picture of a potato.
I thought of what my hipster friends would say.
“It’s isn’t just a potato.  It’s so much more.  It’s art. It probably stands for famine or the Depression or a childhood friend...”
No.  It is a picture of a potato.  
I thought I would jump on the bandwagon.
So here is my poem:
Potato.
Cutie pie,
if I
eat you up,
what next?
Imagine,
you are
introduced
to 'you'.
Wow! see that smile.
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