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See all the daytime people
under the pitiless, paper sun
hurried, harried, important and empty
Running rabbits
racing rats
trying to
get it all
done

 

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White
is absence,
the absence of pigment
of fertility
of time

White
is hard,
the hardness of tooth
of bone
of stone

It is not vulnerable
like green
alive and pulsing

It is not fluid
like blue
brimming and rippling

White is brittle, bleached
leached
a bleak remnant

White is what is left
when life is gone
and even decay is done

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