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LEAVING I scrape my shadow off of the wall. . Fold and re-fold it. Pack it neatly in a tiny suitcase. More a hold all. All that's left is a slight stain on some wallpaper roses. Already fading. A scrap of sunlight chases itself like an annoying yappy dog. A broken bit of glass sticks in my toe. I peel my reflection from the full length mirror. It is like trying to grapple water. It comes unstuck lifts off with a slight gasp. I funnel it into a minature empty shampoo bottle 250 mls. Outside a taxi honks its horn. Its sound invades the silence of this box like room. Four wall that ( even now ) fail to recognise me. "Where to mate?" asks the driver. I look at his photo !.D. "A. Death." it reads as if this was some kind of surreal joke. "Anywhere and nowhere." I answer. "Anywhere and nowhere."
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Apr 2, 2017
Apr 2, 2017 at 5:24 PM UTC
LEAVING
LEAVING I scrape my shadow off of the wall. . Fold and re-fold it. Pack it neatly in a tiny suitcase. More a hold all. All that's left is a slight stain on some wallpaper roses. Already fading. A scrap of sunlight chases itself like an annoying yappy dog. A broken bit of glass sticks in my toe. I peel my reflection from the full length mirror. It is like trying to grapple water. It comes unstuck lifts off with a slight gasp. I funnel it into a minature empty shampoo bottle 250 mls. Outside a taxi honks its horn. Its sound invades the silence of this box like room. Four wall that ( even now ) fail to recognise me. "Where to mate?" asks the driver. I look at his photo !.D. "A. Death." it reads as if this was some kind of surreal joke. "Anywhere and nowhere." I answer. "Anywhere and nowhere."
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Apr 2, 2017
Apr 2, 2017 at 5:24 PM UTC
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