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Blumfeld

you hold your hands up

--to stop it?--

you, erbärmliches Behagen

--to fend it off?--

you pathetic creature

--reaching?-- 

**** yourself

--realing-- 

disgusting striving toward nothing

disregard your feeling and your noteworthiness 

nothing of value

--to stop it?--

you are nothing of value

--to fend it off?--

heart beating

wind howling

permeable gestures in the dark 

green-on-black horizon over an invisible sea

something could be out there

who knows

who asks

who sees

you do, in your wordless way

choke on your breath

muttering incongruously to yourself

was it here before-- has it come around again?

small, blue metal sphere, indifferent to you

flies into back of your head

where it has been

(indifferent or not different from your suffering,

its impact is one and the same with you)

please stay, you mumble as it darts away again

 

that's why, you wonder

that's why, you think

you are lost in your unsubstantiated thought

you blink

relieved everything came out this way

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Written by
sansara-justinovich
American
Published
May 18, 2021
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