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The Sadist
"...Open heart surgery."
"With a spoon?!"
Literature
Roadmaps
I have traced my fingers along,
following undulating roads
on faded parchment maps but
there is no X
to mark the spot
where you should be.
I have pushed my way past
half-lit tunnels of willow
leaves, tread over mossy rocks
and overturned each one,
searching for clues, arrows.
I have mapped the stars and
their trails that I might
never be lost - but I am wandering
all the same without
you.
I have studied each roadsign;
followed each one
to its dead end
and U-turned back
to where I started.
I have traced my
footsteps,
over and over,
searching for the place
where I lost my way,
but there is no path back
to you.
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Let's say you have a story. Let's say you have a page where there should be a story, but the paper is empty and the inkstains are fresh on your tongue and the words keep diving back into your throat every time you try to speak or write. Remember, darling, when you told me that a bare book is like the faces of newly-made angels? You used to have something for this: a shallow well inside your chest where you could put the thoughts and the silence and the prayers and other forgotten things and every time you needed something beautiful I would reach inside and pull it out for you. But it's gone now, the well and the water and whatever else wa
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Interesting...
If one has no past or present, where are they?
I can't help asking that question, but I think more of limbo than anything else, if you get what I mean?
It's quite direct, and it's thought-provoking as well.
Not bad.
If one has no past or present, where are they?
I can't help asking that question, but I think more of limbo than anything else, if you get what I mean?
It's quite direct, and it's thought-provoking as well.
Not bad.