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Leaving Home

You pace a room full of forgotten thoughts

And find yourself hanging

Down

From the peeling wallpaper

It is yellowed and crisp

In your hands

 

A tangled man

Made of Spiderwebs

Asks you why.

“why,” he asks. “Do you always fall parallel to the earth

But perpendicular to everyone else?”

You toss him away on a puff of breath.

You tell him you like falling, thank you very much,

And fall out of a shattered window

And you are reabsorbed into the nighttime.

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katie-hill
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Published
Sep 8, 2010
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