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Coca-Cola

Traces of constellations written in freckles on your back

A laugh like Judaism and a touch like loneliness

Can only explain it in pictures of black and white images

like a chemical combustion in frail snapshots

tethered hands all weathered and rough

Misspoken masterpieces communicated through touch

So hard to contain this sensation

I can't explain through anything tangible

A cloud that changes shape upon inspection

Spectacles, our honors

gleaming like a trophy that's hidden in a box

left alone to rust

Miscellaneous hands grasped to chasms

moving so quick and fast

There's no lines attached to those burdens or

bodies crisp gloves cover up

Stretched or crunched

hovering like a light

above storms in the town square

Overblown posters with checkers

faded colors in Spring

advertising bands

that I won't listen too, fabric I'll never feel

noises I'll never have to speak over

or turn down on radios

Artichoke hearts stabbed by the fork

held by an animator choking on the root

This is the inheritance of sound

of presences on stages or garages

These oiled gemstones

blurred behind faceless statuesque

pieces of cold stone

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bowsnarrows
27 / M
Published
Mar 23, 2016
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