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Charles Barnett
Poems
Oct 2012
Text Message
Your name never fails to appear.
On little LCD screens. On the back
of my eyelids where I trace the letters
as if they belonged to me.
My heart claws its way up my throat
like the way I claw at my scalp.
My face. My hair. Everytime
my phone lights up,
your name never fails to appear.
Written by
Charles Barnett
Ironton, Ohio
(Ironton, Ohio)
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