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The thing is, I have a fragmented memory. All the moments of which you're meant to have vivid recollections? I only know that they happened, and sometimes barely that. They say you'll never forget your first [insert supposedly meaningful event here], but I have, and only occasionally because I was highly intoxicated. When I first realised this I ( Read more... )

 I've been reading a lot more poetry recently than I ever used to.

Primo Levi - The Black Stars

Let no one sing again of love or war.

The order from which the cosmos took its name has been dissolved;
The heavenly legions are a tangle of monsters,
The universe - blind, violent, strange - assails us.
The sky is strewn with horrible dead suns,
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There are spaces that exist between us. 
Little eternities in the not-glances
Quiet rooms; dust in the silences
Big questions, like 'how was your day?'

On our own, I think we probably just wonder why we're living, and why we're so scared. 

There's something so sad about stacked spoons
And the grease-marked ages on the windows
Lonely missives directed to 'the occupant' 
A painful apathy in how I can tell
Who's coming up the stairs

Those month-old stains have stayed a year
Appear, loiter, disappear...
It's the gas oven, warmer than some nameless chest
That makes me realise
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She's lost again ( Read more... )

Remind me of
The last time
We were looking for something.
It was called love
And back then
We believed in it.
Now we search with eyes open
Amongst the dry felt-tips and cracks
In many ceilings.
We pause upon the emergence
Of a spider
Or a photograph.
But we continue
Although one day
We will not believe in this, either.

(I wrote this in literally ten minutes for some poetry thing at school, and I know it's bad, but I feel like I should post it. I don't know why. ^_^)

I close my eyes and open the door
To a day when times have changed.
Where I can smile as a friend,
And not as an acquaintance
Though we know it all will end
We do not plan, we leave life to chance.

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