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Graves of Saturn

The television plays

static and bad news,

You sleep on a pillow

under the basement

below the bed,

You are barely sleeping,

I am barely dreaming,

needle-sewed nightmares

that wake me and have me

jaded and joyless,

taboo thoughts,

just static,

just bad news.

 

-Jamie F. Nugent

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Mar 18, 2016
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