"I am..."

"I am..."

A Poem by Harrison Lang Simms
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||A NEW BLACK|| :: the four-fourty-seven-a-m-compilation

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Duly Note :::  |O*n the second try,/reader,/imagine:/you "†"/...

 I am…


…wet in leather.

Should the sludge --

that stumps my waste --

survive?

 

"Seriously…"

 

The fact of the matter

is that matters aren’t really very fact-like

at all.

 

"Yep." It’s a b*****d

trap.

And the "crustRUNSorRemainswithin"

so they said; say it's been said to say...

...

...just to say --

|Likeagun"†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†""†"†††††

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© 2013 Harrison Lang Simms


Author's Note

Harrison Lang Simms
||A NEW BLACK|| :: the four-fourty-seven-a-m-compilation

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Added on February 22, 2013
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Harrison Lang Simms
Harrison Lang Simms

[email protected], Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC



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