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First Line: The past has come apart
Last Line: Dilation has entirely eliminated your long reality
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.




The past has come apart
events are vagueing
the future is a seedless pod
the present pain.

Not even pain has that precision
with which it struck youth.

Years like moths
erode internal organs
hanging or falling
in a spoiled closet.

Does you mirror bedevil you?
Or is the impossible
possible to senility?

How could the erstwhile
agile and slim self-
that narrow silhouette-
come to contain
this huge incognito-
this bulbous stranger-
only to be exorcised by death?

Dilation has entirely dominated
your long reality.






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