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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Atonement: A Poem

art is not
 a window

art is not
 a reflection

art 
 
 is 

  not {something so}

   tame. 

words for art: 
labor
pain
bloodbath 
Torture 

teenage torture 
screams, 
cries, 
vows, 
and then (finally)
grows up

but Torture 

spins itself around your heart and tugs
HARDER
drags down to the depths 
of humanity
watches 
a head held just below the surface by 
trusted things 
Torture is not death, but 
too close dreams of too far death

Torture 
turns once happy people artists 
or mad 
but mostly 
both

Yes, but

it is only in desparate spasms of labor that anything new is born

it is only one who has dreamt to die knows what it truly is to truly live

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