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Twenty Seven Stories Up Looking Twenty Seven Stories Down

Ted Jackins

When the wind blows
through my hair like this,
it reminds me of a time
when we were forever
tattooed to that street,
moving along sidewalks
stiff as chess pieces,
wide eyed and mystified
by the emptiness of
small town breathing,
and the endless possibilities
that we all dreamed lay in
waiting just outside
the city limits.
Now my lips move
but don’t even know
the words to these silent
songs stabbed deep into
my frontal lobe
as the headphones hum
along but the notes which
come through are twisted,
incoherent and as fuzzy
as distant hallucinations.
I recall the smoke
twirling around your
eyelashes as it crawled
from lips to sky,
all lit up in liquor
and pine needles
to reflect the trembling
sunlight we’re trying
so hard to ignore,
twilight-
sing along with me.

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