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Feb 2014
"What are you afraid of?"
nothing
The nothing that left, but never said why
So that when you lay on the tiles,
it feels like a whole breath escaped you.

I feel it when I reach into my right pocket
and fail to hear the sound of keys.
Yet those problems have solutions, and I
am left with nothing I can do.

Heights - a worthy foe, a common problem
Keep your shoes at sea level.

You cannot flee from nothing
Nothing is terminal: the outline of its shadow.

Serpents and spiders may sink their fangs,
but there is no antidote which lets you do,
when all you can do, is nothing.
John Duval
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John Duval  Canada
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