Tuesday, November 1, 2011

the luxury of silence

in the still dim room

that went quiet on her

she couldn’t even hear

her toes wiggle

under the sheets

her porcelain friends

looked on with

silent apathy

in the cold new

england bed room

that contained her

warming body and

broken heart, she

squeezed her eyes

shut and when that

didn’t work she

rubbed her

eyes with her

fists until stars

came out

and when that didn’t work

she thought about

backwards beatles and

whistled to herself

the world must let me focus

or my mind will let me go

nothing seemed to work so

she just prayed with wheat pennies

between her teeth and it went like

please and please please and

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