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Nov 09, 2009
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impossible, loveless
morning,
you wake up wrapped up in your skin
unproved.
you are only
what you are
of the times i did not see you
you were beautiful, you were soft
i began to understand the challenge in
drawing out faces and bodies,
those amorphous figures
not made of squares or ovals
only obscure combinations
an easy mistake to make
is to watch objects in movement,
to read the expired printed food labels in the fridge
and peer in the mirror directly after
or worse your lover's eyes framed perfectly
in their face
you wake up wrapped up in your skin
unproved.
you are only
what you are
of the times i did not see you
you were beautiful, you were soft
i began to understand the challenge in
drawing out faces and bodies,
those amorphous figures
not made of squares or ovals
only obscure combinations
an easy mistake to make
is to watch objects in movement,
to read the expired printed food labels in the fridge
and peer in the mirror directly after
or worse your lover's eyes framed perfectly
in their face
— whitetea, Nov 09, 2009
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Critiques
Kailashana
16 years 7 months ago
lst stanza: remove some
themoonman
16 years 7 months ago
Whitetea...