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The first capturing your gaze into nowhere
the other when you covered your face with your hands
so you were not anonymous, only unseen
From time to time, language dies. / It is dying now. / Who is alive to speak it?
in 1989 you walk the main road to /
Tiananmen when the inexplicable /
hits
Why didn't I just say / people like us here / at this table / should not just talk about politics
Relying a little less on the odd language we’d been left inside / we turned back to feeling: — / more moan, more mumble.
Your lone question —
What happens when you ignore a part of someone? —
Would flood me, and in time, knock down
Every structure.
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