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#bulletin
a quote of wisdom makes it to school bulletin; janitor reads it.
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Dec 15, 2024
Dec 15, 2024 at 2:39 AM UTC
school bulletin
A Valentine's Card dressed With Steve Buscemi's face, photoshopped onto a child, disturbing and hilarious, tattooed on the inside with once-true truths. Flammable. A severed chunk of 35 mm film, cut in a rhombus, or trapeze or whatever, highly flammable. A piece of cloth I brought with me, And the part of the belt I had to cut off so it would fit my skinny *** Flammable, slightly. A dead and dried up leaf, Impaled on the bulletin board, From a tree I don't even know what, That sometimes crinkles with the wind, If she were alive still, She would comment on the Cold thumbtack spear In her abdomen, and Sniff regrets at the sweet, Artificial Vanilla waves below. I keep my wall of flammable memories Above a lit candle, Every day, I wish the flames Would reach a little higher, but Every day, the wax sinks, low, low, lower still.
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Feb 26, 2017
Feb 26, 2017 at 2:55 PM UTC
The Dead Leaf and the Thumbtack