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I was nothing more Two eyes and two ears With two hearts Out of mind All the while gazing Always through the fire All the fires Others fires Mirroring each flick and fleck Over and over The same fire All the while Denying The heat burning my toes Ignoring The flames skrimshawing In the soot of my soul Two hands dipped in paint Stringing sentences around my neck Two legs limp Burned and bleached Logs of what the fire ate up Nothing more But smoke Dancing through the leaves Of books I had wrote Meant to write Watched be written None of them mine Too long I had gazed Endlessly into the flames Throwing paper into the fire That has burned me up Blackened stumps dot The leather Cover of my skin Italics in bold sans script Read Two eyes and two ears Two hands Two legs heart mind Pencil Paper Battery Steel wool .......... Grinning still Nothing more (JL)
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Feb 12, 2016
Feb 12, 2016 at 10:27 AM UTC
She Gazes Through The Flames
I was nothing more Two eyes and two ears With two hearts Out of mind All the while gazing Always through the fire All the fires Others fires Mirroring each flick and fleck Over and over The same fire All the while Denying The heat burning my toes Ignoring The flames skrimshawing In the soot of my soul Two hands dipped in paint Stringing sentences around my neck Two legs limp Burned and bleached Logs of what the fire ate up Nothing more But smoke Dancing through the leaves Of books I had wrote Meant to write Watched be written None of them mine Too long I had gazed Endlessly into the flames Throwing paper into the fire That has burned me up Blackened stumps dot The leather Cover of my skin Italics in bold sans script Read Two eyes and two ears Two hands Two legs heart mind Pencil Paper Battery Steel wool .......... Grinning still Nothing more (JL)
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Feb 12, 2016
Feb 12, 2016 at 10:27 AM UTC
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