beautiful. and funnily, I like this more than the other one.
I should use books in my poetry more often, this reminded me.
KS
On 22/12/06, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Don't try so hard
>
>
> voice gone
> (the flowing voice you loved)
> stripped to grunts, small
> sighs, more silence
> than sound
>
> voice changed
> (the lilting voice I loved)
> sculpted to death, cut
> glass, shut faster
> than books
>
> the possessed voice has possessed itself
> (I don't know you)
> inhabits itself in its own
> words, looks for nothing but its own
> disconnected
> perfection
>
> rains on itself and drives
> itself through the rain
>
> umbrellas itself to shut
> out the rain, cars itself, houses itself, finds
> nothing
>
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> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> Poems at Proximity:
> http://www.proximity.webhop.net
>
> You cannot love alone
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