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ecrivan
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0 posted 2002-01-19 09:17 PM




You are my post
at the end of sentences
or just the finale
after the last word
at the curtain fall
and the end of
a myriad of statements before..
the audience rises.
There's relentless drive
to come to full stop
at the end of the need
and not a half one,
where words could hang forever
in a precarious balance
at the cliff's edge of one's mind.
There is a need to fix a mark
set a regal seal
with that jet black dot
slightly embedded into the tissue,
into the fabric of the write.
There is still a need
for a last hoorah, a final bow
and make that conclusive point
with neatly circumvented blots
surrounded by microscopic ridges
outside of which there is mostly white,
a nude surface begging for a fill-in...
The dot seeks to punctualize
that which is within the barren reaches.
and its impression still exacts
a halt of speach,
a clipping of breath
that the end of a life too
has its period...
But what if life had no end,
would there be no reason to dot?
And if that life was unfairly brief,
what kind of halt would be best?
For you see, for those that believe
in the hereafter, than that dot
should be in a string of many.............







[This message has been edited by ecrivan (01-20-2002 09:31 AM).]

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ecrivan
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1 posted 2002-01-19 10:28 PM


my dot poem doesn't do well without comments..please!


ecrivan
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2 posted 2002-01-19 11:50 PM


these dots are lonely without words to surround them


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