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Things tragic:
the fallen young
... the silent old.

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To what I've not seen
not felt, not yet
... what time?

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Tangles of memories
tangled in words and mind -
this moment's tangles to find.

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... and comes the printed man -
but do not ask,
he cannot say.

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(Inspired by scrabble at Flickr)

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Meat-stained regrettables
obsessively hidden
from fresh compulsions.

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Again, the pale ... the fade
again, skies fire to black -
a turn richer.

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