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I Watched You Eat Your Cotton Candy

I watched you slowly disappear pacing restlessly back and forth warbling off-key through the woozy blackness of a day I watched you glide upwards through the slender keyholes quivering and sun-cloaked towards the edgeless seasons I watched you unfurl with rapture rummaging the vast firmament ill-famed for your cinder face corralled and vaulted I watched you smile in epoxy at every wake and burial you made weather off your skin mostly smooth and neon-colored I watched you sink in every rivulet amidst the mountain ridges and your incandescent eyelashes creeping upon the timid animals I watched you blast off to nowhere becoming a zero, a ransacked town only a replica of your blank self a free sacrifice to destroyers I watched you eat your cotton candy heading home to fictive horizons your limbs so flabby and tired your eyes full of dismissal

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Date: 1/2/2020 12:20:00 PM
Sounds like a town where I once lived. How have you been William?
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William Greco
Date: 1/4/2020 1:28:00 PM
what was the town's name? oh I've been busy, thanks for asking. not much time for writing, but I still write a short poem from time to time, mostly not publishing them anywhere...

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