Lost In Applause
Lost in Applause
I let the book fall from my hands,
relishing the tumbling words
…I fell
I let the air fall….. so I could breathe
below the surface
I retrieved the pages I read on
the way down, calling out the turning
chapters as baby elephants ran through
my coffee shop, unable to prevent
the poster announcing the circus in town
starring their tortured parents
suddenly the poster burst into flames,
burning all the lies hidden between the
lines, singeing the white-face-clown,
the self-proclaimed “ruler of the wild”
for centuries, speeches carved in ivory
beneath monuments to truth,
lay buried in silence,
and no one to talk to
...no one
to talk to
08/03/10
6:26pm
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