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Even though
there is

nothing about
himself that

he likes, he
defends his

image like he
is singing

the final aria
in a tragic

Italian big
time opera.
mad
Thirty-three,
You might as well call me Alice in wonderland
because I fall down rabbit holes in my mind
and time feels like it's slipping through my small hands
Maybe I'm just mad and maybe all the good ones are
Maybe its just that pain is never too far
and how much are we to bear
maybe the unmad ones are the ones that don't care

Sometimes I even descend into another land
this one is filled with a version of you
unhurt
unbroken
so I like to stay there
I lay under the trees and breathe in a crisp breath by the white pine trees
a forest where I'm free to believe in what I see

Am I fading?
Or is there more to lose
before I grow too big or too small
maybe I just don't want to choose
Because I feel it
Time.
It feels like a ghost every night haunting me and you
What are you doing
to yourselves? I can

not suitably reply
to the question  

posed by the vast,
unfathomable

sea, as my little boat
barely stays afloat.
She is a copywriter
at a law firm, where

the men remind her of

the creepy guy in the
produce aisle, with a

head of iceberg lettuce,

leering at her, smiling
โ€”as she contemplates

the bright blank screen.
unnamed 3d
you say we'll marry
all I see are love's leavings
times of estrangement.
No, I can't accept
your batch
of 'top contributor'
one swallow
doesn't make
a summer
I'm but a winnow
meandering over
a limited space
but exulting
as a free fellow

only a faint colour
in life's canvas
but I am
no painter

only a passerby
a traveller
a voice unheard
well aware
life's a brief play
and too soon
the show
will be over
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