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I Haven’t Read That One

Ian Mullins

Strange that in stolen-back hours
I have to push myself
to do the things
I like best; that books and music
should array themselves
like unmarked graves
and I must choose which one
to add my signature to:

stranger still
that my natural state
– if I possess such a thing –
should be torpor
and indifference, the latter
so deep and detached
that I am even indifferent
to myself. Why wash
my face, why go to work?
Every day finding
fewer reasons to rise
from my grave,
only needing sleep
as a soldier needs a bullet,

taking out his enemies
before they train him
in their sights, clearing
the battlefield with one pull
of the trigger. To rest
redundant in a workless age,
where nothing to do and no reason
to do it are only consolations
that occupy the hours;
fill another imaginary page.



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