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Sketch Artiste

Alex S. Johnson

There are only so many exceptions
Till the rules fall like hammers
Till your skin blazes
As though light were forcing its fingers
Out of your chest
There are only so many
Compromised positions
A man can take
On his journey up and out.
These words are so many drafts,
Notes on doom, left in my wake
For whatever purposes they may serve
Till that vicious angel draws
The shades, and the din of traveling
Sounds so very far away.
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