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Oh! That they should walk with their heads held high

9/20/2016

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I've tripped over my own feet
so many times this week
that I'm starting to feel that
these limbs I've grown into
are not the ones I'm used to.

I woke up today thinking that
my hair's a little duller,
and my hips a little fuller,
- crooked teeth.

- - - 

I fear that the strangers in the hall
can't see me.
Or that they can.
I don't know which is worse.

---

You look the way you do every day - 
at me and the shapes that my shadows
make under the fluorescence.

I am convinced that I can taste the pity,
overpowering even the bitterness of the coffee,
you, somewhat reluctantly, say it's an acquired taste.

The lights are too dim here to see your point.

---

I didn't say exactly that they were a papercut in human form,
but I also did not say they weren't.

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