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  • 26-03-2006 4:47pm
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    shiv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭


    How can you fall out of and into something at the same time?

    I light a tiny candle. I step into the steam. It is not enough.
    I stand under the water. I want to be the beads. A single jet.
    I long to sit down in the tub with my hair plastered to my head for an hour. More.
    I last ten minutes.

    I step out. I am weakened and not renewed as hoped,
    despite the coconut soap.
    I dry myself off, never enough. My mother's voice in my head.
    I still have no patience with towels, with their drawn-out function.

    But what is there to hurry for?

    Pulling my robe on, I'm back in the room.
    I turn the heat off, open the window.
    It's the same as yesterday.

    The boats don't look like they've moved an inch.
    The apartment is in the exact same place.

    It appears it's only me who's shifted.


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    #2
    Blush_01
    Registered Users Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    :)


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    #3
    manonthemoon
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    I like it too


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    #4
    shiv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭shiv


    Thanks guys :)
    I'm trying my hand at something between poetry and prose, but I'm still really rusty, so feedback is appreciated.

    Thanks again


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