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Twelfth Caprice Of Casanova By Michael Cheval

you never have to chop me open
      my mind/thoughts splay out readily
some version of knowing me, gifted
   then on and off go gloves/mask
        til there's no truth or fight left
  nothing lines up/we're all shouting 
             then calmness falls
         serenaded into confusion 
unnoticed hands snatch or plead
             I don't know which way to look
     so stick with dead ahead

    behind the scenes of inner thought
    I beg of you before I'm too fraught 
    please don't distract with grand display
    whilst my life just ticks away

my lips don't move
   maybe I didn't speak
the backscatter of light remains unfocused 
     awareness of unredeemable judgement
        we may escape in shadows
    as sound creates a portal 
 or perhaps drowning creates a passageway

     without, we all linger

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