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Vague Unwinding Realities

Salter Drummond

Through those
vague unwinding
realities,
and useless
extremities,
the paths laid,
the ones chosen,
and some,
the thicker of the wheat,
better off forgotten
to which
the foundations of hope
built
monuments of rare
subtle towering memories

picking death
from our teeth
with toothpicks
widdled from bone

the dire of the hunger
kept me wanting
and I know you felt better
when you landed
a tin of scotch

it was all too sane,
with circumstances
butting it's sour intentions
within the peace left waiting
passing through the thinning
walls of denial, swept
up under the lobe
of my left ear

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