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Literature Does

Here we are born:

The ill-prepared,

The underwhelmed,

A baby,

Stillborn,

Wondering after its feet,

 

Watching moths commit suicide in their mission for a light.

 

Given no ladder, given no rope,

We pull ourselves up on rungs risking papercuts.

 

Slick, sick, sliding,

The war-torn machine of humanity seeks the sweet oil can only

Consciousness can deliver.

 

"Here lies the illustrious Michel Nostradamus,"

Asleep in a deep sepulcher not unknown to us all.

"Awake and beat I am!"

 

Only some fish make it upstream.

I?

 

I have finally found comfort,

Dear ones.

 

Words have no meaning

(tub erutaretil seod).

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Jun 17, 2013
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