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Dec 2015
LIFE IS A HORIZONTAL FALL
( Hommage à Jean Cocteau )

"Come. . !" said the poem
taking me by the hand

& leading me inside
my self

finding the right words
& binding them together

so that they
became a teardrop

that didn't...couldn't
fall

like a lie
that was the only truth.
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The title comes from a Jean Cocteau quote. I fell in love with his movies when I was 12 and still adore them....poetry in motion

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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

JEAN COCTEAU
Donall Dempsey
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Donall Dempsey  Guildford
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