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Those Who Wait for the Ferry; Or, Death's Pottery Shipment.

Empty humans echo when tapped

Ceramic heartbeats crunch through riverside air

BETWEEN IGNORANCE AND WORTHLESSNESS TRAPPED

Their senses vaporous, impaired.

 

Those which melancholy cannot reach

Across the Styx with curling hands

DO NOT EXIST; THEIR WALLS WERE BREACHED

With icy fingers, buzzing bland.

 

Empty humans echo when tapped

With icy fingers, buzzing bland

FROM THE NIGHT BREEZE WHICH LAPPED

Across the Styx with curling hands.

 

Those which melancholy cannot reach,

Their senses vaporous, impaired

ARE A MIASMA ON THE BEACH

Ceramic heartbeats crunch through riverside air.

 

*Pottery people are all appearance

And their hollows are touched rarely

By their own sentience

While waiting for the ferry--*

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clayton-woolery
American
Published
Dec 26, 2010
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