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The Likelihood of Never

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  • 25-07-2006 6:01am
    #1
    shiv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭


    Fingers detecting
    Grass stain-coloured bruises
    Underneath my skin
    Evidence of severe molecular smashing

    A riot of colour and hurt
    The combination of a wayward car door
    And my interfering shoulder
    The recipe for this latest body bashing

    Well-worn vulnerability veers me
    Off the set, safe path again
    Making it difficult
    To flick off my clumsy attempts
    At out-doing desolation

    The thought of trumping fate
    Pocketing your queen
    Touching you with a typewriter
    Absurd

    After all this borrowing of narrative heaven
    Your words are kites
    Soaring skyward only to come tumbling down
    Around a bunch of string
    I pull and grasp too tightly

    Every time I go over the lines
    Tangling intent and tangibility
    The sound of lift-off deafens my tongue
    Wraps twine around my eyes
    As my satisfied solar plexus sings

    The tips of my sadness pause
    Underneath unpainted fingernails
    Just waiting for a free keyboard and a second chance
    To uncoil all this out at your feet

    Stubbornly clutching at the giddiness
    Of an overstimulated synapse living in the past
    Beautiful hypothetical possibility
    Never realized now


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