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  • The light blue flickering rhythm
  • Of the neighbor's big console T.V.
  • Is basking on the ceiling
  • Of another insomniac spree
  • And outside sleep's open window
  • Between the drops of rain
  • History is writing a recipe book
  • For every earthly pain
  • Oh to clean up the clutter of echoes
  • Coming in and out of focus
  • Words spoken
  • Like locusts
  • Sing and sing
  • In my head
  • And thing is
  • They often seem
  • In my memory's long dream
  • To be superfluous to
  • The true story of what was
  • Cuz
  • Real is real regardless
  • Of what you try to say
  • Or say away
  • Real is real relentless
  • While words distract and dismay
  • Words that change their tune
  • Though the story remains the same
  • Words that fill me quickly
  • And then are slow to drain
  • Dialogues that dither down reminiscent
  • Of the way it likes to rain
  • Every screen
  • A smoke screen
  • Oh to dream
  • Just for a moment
  • The picture
  • Outside the frame
  • Then in a flash
  • The light blue horizon
  • Spanning a sudden black
  • Is sucked into the vanishing point
  • And quiet rushes back
  • To search for the downbeat
  • In a tabla symphony
  • To search in the darkness
  • For someone who looks like me
  • (Though I'm not really who I said I was
  • Or who I thought I'd be)
  • Just a collection of recollections
  • Conversations consisting
  • Of the kind of marks we make
  • When we're trying to get a pen to work again
  • A lifetime of them!
  • Cough…cough…ahem…
  • I say to me
  • Now here listening
  • I say to the locusts
  • That sing and sing to me sitting
  • Now here on the front porch swing of my eyes:
  • I hereby amend
  • Whatever I've ever said
  • With this sigh

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