Very powerful Rich.
The first line is a real grabber.
- Peter Ciccariello
On 12/27/06, Richard Jeffrey Newman <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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> The Silence At The End Of A Marriage
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> The floor is slick with the blood of green ideas,
> murdered last night in their furious sleep
> while those of us on the dance floor begged, Please,
> a colorless song to claim as our own! And keep
> those caged and naked echoes of desire
> hanging high above us, where they're safe.
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> The killers have not fled: They hang you higher,
> and their eyes on you are tight enough to chafe
> the tender skin you wouldn't know you had
> except that they have wrapped you in their gaze.
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> Paralysis-they insist it's in your head,
> and you believe them-infiltrates your days
> and you live your nights in dreams of failed escape.
> That's you: a failure dreaming sleepless of escape.
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> Rich Newman
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