4108. NEGLECT

NEGLECT

So I inhabit worlds that exist and those

that do not. So my sock-feet are here

ennobled by visions : I am the winsome

stealth-cat, moving between lanes and

staying quiet over fire-escapes of ladder

and hoist. Yes, though it may be this is

the building I live in, so too is it where I

am not. Like Science's capricious foe, I

am that which cannot be measured.

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I lived beneath a bridge, right where I

was born. Now, in the Wintry light that

pecks at my face, I manage only to

stare out, look glumly, try to recall,

about this world I've never seen, or

may have, or - yes - seen not at all.

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I grow the grand flower 'Paradox';

it weathers every doom and crisis

and grows richer with neglect.