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fractal007
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since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958


0 posted 2005-01-09 11:30 PM


Sing a song for me and I'll forget
you have a way with my mind that way
bleeding through the paper and onto
the wood below with a steady relentless
wet
seep through strands and leaves
take them up in transport soak
my mind in your story and course
through the veins of a page of
blank white as though you were
the blood of victims of war
piled upward never to dry never
you have a way with my mind that way
accepting my ink sustained by
the wood below with a steady relentless
pitter patter of rain on a coast
without sunlight where the
gray is felt and seen
without memories
of songs you once sang
bleeding through paper
having a way with my mind
stretching out upon the wood
unfolding the story like
the skin parting around a
torn open gash spitting forth
issuing puss and fluid
everyone craves wielding
the pen but sacrificing so much
to gain that one moment of truth
so desperately needed
never gained this night until some
other night flows down onto the
land like an oozing film making
its way across the structures
and hills and its of the world
treating all as its equal
familiarity without mercy
gone from the familiar daylight
alien without identity
alone and isolated from its
my mind has a way with you

Any idiot can see that the result is true.
-- argumentum ad idiotum
Me!

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green_itchy_stuff
Senior Member
since 2003-06-26
Posts 1929
New Caney, Tx
1 posted 2005-01-10 01:13 AM


Its like when you read you think and sink deeper and deeper into the poem.  Like showing yourself inside out and never showing all.  Thats pretty intense.  I liked it.  
-GIS

not as a compliment, but I'm adding it on.

Corruption is caused by holes in obedience to God.

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