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Slender

Bryan M. Huizi

The sounds from
the radiator echo
off the ambivalent white walls
with the agonizing rhythm
of a typewriter,
when someone else is writing.
A kitten’s gentle paws
rest on the window sill
as he studies
the shifts
of an encapsulated world
through sunshine yellow eyes.
In this silence I notice
my skeleton ache,
a prize fighter who has trained
for a match
without any set date,
an absent venue.
Soft clouds linger
on the horizon,
standard apparitions of ambition,
decorating a sky that displays
a quiet blue shade of depression.
In the embroidery of a small town,
in the afternoon’s light
sometimes
it is the waiting that kills you.

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