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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#1015541 added August 15, 2021 at 12:22am
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In This Primordial Dust I Play
Weight so heavy
cripples
Inertia on this floor
         smooth          linoleum          comfort
No argument here
Face flat
         on a cool surface
by the door
locked

Dust collects
on skin less like flesh
Never bother
get up
         Always
feel a cool surface
         a dry stream purge
Carry me
down this alley
         avenue

A hollow heart
grinds blood
Hollow head
grinds grist of thought
         slowing
beneath a table
shadowed
covered
surrounded by
empty chairs

a wide kitchen hush
lost village
         a ghost town
Me and dust

Tumblers fumble
The dull door unseals
Through that portal
         all lost
to another time

Stand sober
Crumbs wipe away
Excuses to be made?
Why?
Just,          why?
fantasize in such
a primitive place
where no one else
can see          me?

Though
where I wish
be found
before primordial decay



8.12.21/8.14.21 edit
52 lines, too long, too unstructured for any contest I know of.


It started with six lines re-edited into oblivion and taken over by an imagination that tends to get lost while seeking its way before sobering reality sets in.
Or,
I might just be talking out of my ass, as they say. Ever just laid on the hard floor for a temperate place to let the mind wander away from reality? You can't think like me until you're willing to let your face lay with the dust bunnies.

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