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Math

Out the window

(Speckled glass)

Lives being lived

(I'm sitting on my ***

 

On the kitchen clock

(When will I paint these beige walls?)

Time being ticked.

(So it goes, after all)

 

And even on the street,

That kitchen clock does tick,

Madly, furiously ticking-too fast

As a life quickly fades

(But not mine this time)

 

We (and I) don't care

'Cause we weren't there

We(I)'ve no idea

How to feel.

 

One life's a tragedy

Two lives are jaw dropping.

A sports team is urban terror.

Fifty lives, a massacre,

And at one hundred it doesn't matter anymore

 

Rest in peace,

Dear lives seen

(On speckled glass)

I'm not afraid to die|

           Because humans are bad at counting.

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Written by
jeremy-r-frenette
28 / Agender / Canadian
Published
Oct 31, 2011
Lines·Words
27·118
Notes

Well this poem certainly grew a lot after finding it in my old notes.

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