Short Farsighted Poems

New clothes and makeup, my heart delighted
Awaiting my fate with a date who is farsighted





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Knock Knock
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Knock knock
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Knock knock
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knock knock
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KNOCK! KNOCK!

Exasperated farsighted man glaring at his derby hat on the hall tree...

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They kill for their namesake
Blinded with visions of righteousness
Mirrored with images of self
Sanctifying, with daggers plunging deep
Crowds gather in loyalty
Massed in fear, assembled in hatred
Adherence to dogmas of a farsighted kind
While master deceivers bloom like orchids...

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Consider the grey past... A pale beginning. 
Take hold the farsighted vision... A rotation of blackened skies.
Cast the darkness aside itself... Immerse into the illuminate. 
Blinded eyes always ignite... Blue flash arcs.
Lured by the energy... Tightening inside intuition.
At what speed is your channel???
Free fall thru a vortex. 
Sustained stones carved...
Anew future....

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She took the soup can of heartbreak off  the shelf.
Tore it open with her teeth, they were jagged anyway.
No one was here to stop her, and she felt satisfied.
A mouse with a handful of unhappiness ran over her bare foot.
Just what I needed today to complete myself, she thought.
Her farsighted cat pounced on her big toe, tearing it up.
Missing the mouse by at least ten centimeters.
What else can happen? She wondered.
A jar of worst day ever fell off a top shelf
Crushing her and the cat....

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