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will you please use number 17

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fascinated,
led to holes where
grasses cannot grow,
courted away
from the same old stones,
the same old stories and heroes.

hung my poetry
from a lonely pole,
danced around it and blew smoke,
counted on no one
remembering the glow,
the shadows and bones and the way home.
will you please use number 17. Written December 31, 2012.

Well, mostly written back in May. I tend to write things nearly to completion and then sit on them and let months go by. Some sort of fear, probably. I wanted to finish something before 2012 ended, being as I haven't finished anything since June of 2011, and this was the likeliest candidate. The title comes from some incidental dialogue in Kubrick's 2001.
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LAlight's avatar
Kevin! :hug:
Nice to see you again, and my eyes were most happy to see your words. Hope things are well with you. :)