Educated, Unemployed, Intelligent, Tradeless.
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The surface of your soul is where the birds fly.
You walk on the ground and try to keep the image
of yourself intact. The shoes get dirty.

You are bad at your job because if you weren't
your job would be who you are instead of what you do
on your way to becoming yourself, if kept intact.

The surface of your soul does not differentiate
between the markings on their wings.
To pretend you are not pretending is dying.
The surface of your soul is where the light comes
for the boys to look at all their cast shadows.

Or else to look at you and see clouds up there
when strands of cotton dangle from your ears,
falling from your mouth. In your nose.
Covering your eyes. They say how pretty it is.

"How pretty it is to imagine all the shapes
you might take when the shoes have numbed you."
The clouds are rabbits and the cotton are rabbits
and they want to pat you if you will not run.

You say how pretty it is to imagine all the shapes
you might take when the shoes have numbed you.
The cotton is on top of all the medicine. The bottles
are child proof. Clouds are made of cotton or else
stream from smokestacks and make you choke.

To pretend you are not dying is a way of living.

-e.
















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