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Work Title:		Weighted
Work Author:		Michael Gresley (grez@hotbot.com)
Category:		Poetry
Short Desc:		An evening's revelation...

Date:			12/4/00
Time:			10:30:47 AM
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                                   deep twilight sky
                                   not yet dark enough for stars
                                   silky blue with viscous dimension

                                   thin, continuous cloud
                                   stretches from the horizon's points
                                   a phantom arm holding the world

                                   beneath it is the moon
                                   the circle can be seen,
                                   but the reflected light is merely a sliver

                                   It lies on the bottom,
                                   rather than the side,
                                   heavy, weighted, just like this night
                                   and my head

                                   How did I arrive...here...
                                   and where is here?
                                   Can't stay...stillness is death...
                                   so where do I go now that
                                   I have arrived, and why?

                                   In consideration of these queries,
                                   I feel a strange indifference,
                                   and I question its honesty

                                   No choice is also a choice
                                   a lack of control
                                   desperate helplessness

                                   To escape into the depths of blue
                                   as dust
                                   as a sound wave
                                   as air

                                   To curl within the phantom arm
                                   to hang from the sliver

                                   Save me

                                   Forever is a long time 

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