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knowing one day that the tiles will fall
and my feet will always sleep, i tip. past
the growing vegetation and gawking silence
of admiration into a realm where
i have no hesitation to be the ruler.
i take things as if they were dropped
by someone important and i hide
them behind white fences that rap around
porches but the squirrels will find it
someday but by then i'll have found it
gotten away toward the sun that is
too bright to get into but it is
too cold to pretend that i could swim
without the aid of a shipwreck
of some sort, i can't explain the retorts
from the madness in my head that
one day will find itself behind
curtains of no particular color.
reverberations of the books that
have fallen together into pieces of
art that hasn't even begun to start.
Mike McGerry
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