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Nov162010

107: Your silence and distance obsesses me!/I want to be close enough for...

DateTuesday, November 16, 2010 at 4:13AM

Your silence and distance obsesses me!

I want to be close enough for

our atoms to share electrons

but there you lie –

                                       still

 

A flute which never sounds a note

is not a flute,

it’s a piece of wood

waiting to be a flute

 

Let me lend you my breath

 

 

 

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