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Dearth Demise

Satiety help me I have inhabit

of this world. Extant upon its designs

to be more aimlessly fluttering at

the window, to shadow all the patterns



it offers each sun. In frames far as eye

I draw my words towards a juggler's shards

as if our fallings-down our deaths occurred

but did not involve a lot of colloquialized



arm movements, the body language throws. Thus

the shape of your silence when it speaks me

is different than mine in saying you,



though both of them resemble that spasm hymned as

repose lifepause a happen of sorts the way

the horizon's a long way without meaning to.



--Bill Knott



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