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Gray

Today

the gray in the sky

is as glorious as spittle  

against the Moaning Lisa.

(spit on me, she says)

 

The sky feels like this:

ancient batteries in that beat up fridge,

(nobody cares for these cheep cells, nobody cares for the pressing down ceiling)

(on a day like this, that makes me sink to my knees)

which compose the same sensation

as a cool wet stone

in my palm;

 

Why the mottled face, my sky?

(The stone is clammy in my fingers)

Why the wet that tugs and pulls

until the gray you sport is found in my eyes?

 

It will stay

pressing and bruising slow as chinese water torture

until I realize

the blue above is kissing

these clouds.

 

Then, the sun can be felt at the back of my throat,

warming me.

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kahara-jones-1
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Apr 12, 2013
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