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Valerie Gillis Feb 2012
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Watching
progress load
the home movies of strangers
I will never meet

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Listening
to high school ghosts
sing the same six songs
till my earbuds sproud

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Fortifying
castle walls
invisible mortar against
a vast and empty hoarde

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Checking
how you are
who you're with
holding your shortand

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Whispering
how I am
screening my life
when the phone won't ring

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Searching
flickers of signs
that you are there
reading this
and one day you
(we?)
will
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