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Dust drops like silent thoughts, neglected over the piano lid, shut quiet and still. Some dust we keep as mementos in a chaotic pile of keepsakes. Some we wipe away on a rainy day, with windows wide open to keep it from our nostrils. We wipe away the fingerprints left by the guilty one, the cleaner upper-er, to leave no trace for retribution. Neglect, retention, renewal, recollection, detritus, waste, tidy-up and decay, all converge when we live our lives and gather dust, and we dust up the gathering.

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