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I speak to the world. it talks back, but not in the same way-- it tells me to watch all the little movements-- my eyes drink in slowly the ceiling fan it's shadow reconstruction spinning on the wall I listen as this life speaks. creaking floor underfoot it's words are lost on my heels they do not understand. bedroom window to the street I can barely see through the curtains are drawn closed. this world shows me sense-- it swallows me whole. night turns in the sky like a restless sleeper so I am awake cool air greets me from the idling fan and the floor whines. I cannot see the back yard. cannot hear, feel the world through the distractions-- these cardboard walls the paper sky my mannequin skin-- a projection of the time blinks, red numbers resting on a black shelf, in spite of my confines. 11:31 PM I can not move it back. 11:32 PM
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Jul 18, 2016
Jul 18, 2016 at 2:06 AM UTC
distraction (11:30 PM)
I speak to the world. it talks back, but not in the same way-- it tells me to watch all the little movements-- my eyes drink in slowly the ceiling fan it's shadow reconstruction spinning on the wall I listen as this life speaks. creaking floor underfoot it's words are lost on my heels they do not understand. bedroom window to the street I can barely see through the curtains are drawn closed. this world shows me sense-- it swallows me whole. night turns in the sky like a restless sleeper so I am awake cool air greets me from the idling fan and the floor whines. I cannot see the back yard. cannot hear, feel the world through the distractions-- these cardboard walls the paper sky my mannequin skin-- a projection of the time blinks, red numbers resting on a black shelf, in spite of my confines. 11:31 PM I can not move it back. 11:32 PM
joshua-wooten
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Jul 18, 2016
Jul 18, 2016 at 2:06 AM UTC
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