extension
raze the pain when you turn
your head is somewhere
south of the scapula.

at first you think this
must be what happens
to the heart after
it's been divested
of what it needs
to go on pulsing
and parsing the
signals_and_signs
that make up the map
of your life.

then you remember
straining to see
six hundred or so
planes that were
almost near enough
to touch yesterday,
and all the days
that came before.

funny how flight
can seem so cruel
when it keeps you
pinned to the
gutless ground.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from