talks
if i could talk id tell you
"
she
talks
and
talks
and
talks,
but
no
one
ever
seems
to
be
listening
."
"
maybe
there's
a
reason
for
that
?"
"
if
there's
a
reason
,
i'd
love
to
know
it
.
i
can't
think
of
one
."
"
maybe
people
don't
want
to
hear
what
she
has
to
say
."
"
but
why
?"
"
maybe
it
frightens
them
."
"
why
?"
"
because
maybe
she
speaks
the
truth
."
020128
...
oldephebe
and
then
someone
said
..of
the
old
order
..of
that
that
impotent
guard
of
a
dying
age
..one
breath
more
and
the
wick
would
be
snuffed
..out..this
they
said
to
me
.."
what
howling
lines
are
these
? equity?
that
all
men
should
be
accorded deference
according
to
their
cast
..the
one
indistinguishable
cast
poured
out
of
Times
own
eternal
eyes
..God's
tears
wrought
out
of
the
first
dying
sigh
...dripped
like
iron
from
the
forge..created
the
suns..created
these
embers
that
blossomed
into
humanity
..oh
such
transcendant
metaphysical
pap..too
thin
a
reed
to
rest
a
heresy
upon
.."
to
be
torn
out
of
time
and
shackled
to
a
body
and
an
age
so
out
of
sync
with
a
soul
set
ever
on
fire
..
like
the
snow
bled
out
of
all
it's
virtue
..a
heap
of
ash
..all
these
rancid
diry
little
breaths
torn
out
stagnant
air
..
i
want
to
belong
to
a
younger
more
noble
time
..even
in
the
darker
pages
of
history
..there
was
still
something
hopeful
..in
humanity
..and
not
this
pandemic
polyphony
of
petty
cruelties
and
cellular
..cellular misanthopy..
okay
..tongue
of
flame
stabbing
out
into
the
dark
and
spewing
more
maudlin existential
blech
..
i
am
so
done
..
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...
-----
I'm
sure
Chris
Marlow
would
have
plenty
to
say
about
that
.
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