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Sounds Travel

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I am obsessed
with silence.

Your next-door neighbor left her husband and son
for an artist.  You forever wanted to be her,
glamorous to the point of boredom, the mascara in thick rivers
down her cheeks.

It is like that, and you know it.

Your sister spent a cruel April wondering out windows,
watching the scars on her hands heal over.
Nobody cleaned up the glass.

Still, we are learning
how to live gracefully
in this world: between
silence
and sounds traveling.
.
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scarredsodeep's avatar
this is quite beyond beautiful, and that is the best praise i know.