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Cacophony

Kim Jaxtheimer

I slip the noose    of your words    over and around
your neck    while you    silently ponder

In your worn    burgundy leather chair    encompassed
by pallid pages    which temporarily    lend their meaning

Surrounded by    self-declared splendor and Shostakovich
you slide deeper    into your world    which is your abyss

Your chasm    created by you    for you
not us    your daughters    who happened to witness your duplicity


Your composed universe     compacts corners    cautiously
constructs words    conscripts phrases    that supposedly matter

Guarded by your cello    and personally    annotated sheet notes
you curl into your bow    to orchestrate    a cacophony of dissonance

To fit    your lies    into a discordant meter
I decode    your distant music    hum your pitiful solo

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