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Dreams for Sale


 Hieroglyphics
 

I have not forgotten
ours

I am reminded

of its character
when I withdrawal
love

or

I
linger
too long over
a barbed-wire fence

I have not forgotten
the stench
of freshly sunken
dreams

I am reminded
as my hope
is pulled towards
the floorboard

or

when my faith
is twisted
into something
entirely unfamiliar

or

my fingers are placed
inside its
long

cold
barrel

or

when I bite my tongue
and abandon you

I am reminded
as your taste alters
reels of memory

or

taints all sweet

precious
things

I have not forgotten
what it was like
to breathe
underground

or

to fight
for more
than
what
little
ours

gave.



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 Phoenix Rising
 

A phoenix is a mythical bird with beautiful gold and red plumage. At the end of its life-cycle the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix arises. The new phoenix is destined to live, usually, as long as the old one. The bird was also said to regenerate when hurt or wounded by a foe, thus being almost immortal and invincible. 

 

 

 

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 Social Constructions
 

You watched him rise
like smoke
and fall
like a balloon
collapsing

driving out the air

one crafted
moment
after another.

You raised him to heights
you knew he could never sustain
just to soothe
your impossible,
impenetrable
soul.

And now you are alone
in a quiet place
wondering
what you needed to believe
and why you needed to believe it:

As you ask him
to scale
mountains
and to roll
belly-down
the side

your eyes
wickedly pacified

watching

his body
descend

like a bubble
through
space

one crafted

moment
after another.



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 There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
 

There are several ways of describing the situation that causes escape to be impossible. The difference between these descriptions is how space and time coordinates are drawn on spacetime (the choice of coordinates depends on the choice of observation point and on additional definitions used). One common description, based on the Schwarzschild description of black holes, is to consider the time axis in spacetime to point inwards towards the center of the black hole once the horizon is crossed. Under these conditions, falling further into the hole is as inevitable as moving forward in time. A related description is to consider the future light cone of a test object near the hole (all possible paths the object or anything emitted by it could take, limited by the speed of light). As the object approaches the event horizon at the boundary of the black hole, the future light cone tilts inwards towards the horizon. When the test object passes the horizon, the cone tilts completely inward, and all possible paths lead into the hole.

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 Poor Man's Allegory
 

You left the door wide open
the keys
hanging from the lock
you told me to stay put
while you raised the window
and pressed on the screen
until it dangled outside
the tiny frame
it once knew
so intimately.

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