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Spectacular Slippage

Spectacles slipped into the mine-shaft of mine own thoughts.

What was I doing leaning so far over, looking down the mirror?

To dig them out again, is to reach into my innermost and cry with vengeance sought

after fallen imagery.

A downy trap to trip me,

crawling,

to the bottom of The Well.

It is well-thought to pick up the spectacles before climbing back out again.

Naught but a pinprick of light, a shining shaft,

to guide me.

The crevices of luck leading back to the place where my spectacles can be of use.

Here? It is the climbing, dark, murky

Raiment of the rocks around me.

The dimmest glow surrounds,

and   I

               climb

                               UP

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Published
Feb 13, 2011
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