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Walk

I took a walk looking for a reason to come back home,

And searched for Beatrice along the way.

 

I too, a wayfarer looked for a response that cannot be homogenized

And sorrowed for breathlessly asking, “Then when?”

I told another woman, “Let Freud’s analysis reach that conclusion”, but how?

And subliminal feelings become another threatening worry.

 

I thought a word, lachrymose, finite, and resonant. That concisely besmirched her.

And subsequently forgotten, but always tacit, “Why?”

 

I think about why looking for a reason to correspond becomes hopeless.

And Sisyphus falls backwards against the weight…

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