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The Hollow Nature of Being

WALL I: inside an empty room lies an empty box and in that box is a four walled inside room within--- on each of the four walls is a mirror reflecting the deep desertion of the next and distant within each wall is another echoing & spiraling back into infinite repetition with nothing or no one except the physical entities bearing back upon each other. WALL II: an empty room in an empty house the house itself has no physical attributes because it was built in a barren field--- there are no animals, no trees, no beings of any kind roaming around the house whose image cannot be imagined, at best, know that this house in fact “housed” the room in question, as any house might any room. WALL III: such a barren field stretches to all four corners carrying itself out beyond the periphery curling back in on the other side, and walking in any direction will bring one back to the beginning--- the barren field that reveals the empty house that encapsulates the empty room is the most integral point of reference within the endless flat plain of grass. WALL IV: endless flat plains of grass flowing out in all directions covering the circumference of the area around the empty house residing in the middle of the plain wherein the inside of the empty house holds the empty room & in the room, the four mirrored walls reveal only the replication of the others, spiraling into infinite repetition--- there is no feeling no sound no communication of any kind woven with the thread of human fiber.

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Date: 9/23/2011 6:58:00 PM
Happy weekend I enjoyed reading your wonderful poetry today Andrew. Love, Carol
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