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if the floor fell away it would be visceral, immediate, so "real"

but as the security of those next steps curdles and fades it is another near intangible...large and jagged as a cliff face yet fleshed in vapor and fog

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4589 lost keys

8634 missed turns

1467 lost emails

3112 texts not sent

4 names forgotten

29,872 words washed clean from memory

a day has passed in so many hours

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the suit hung on a hanger at attention ....hung .....the weight just enough to not break it in two

he once knew what he bought it for

20 minutes in some store on some street for a new __

it was 32 steps to that door

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it is like counting raindrops....every one will count the few before they run clean away.....the rest just falls and then later is gone....so such are the syllables of names precisely cut clean away

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34 miles of wire.... 500 pounds of wood, nails and mud

in 1944 fumiko touched his hand across the fence in the camp...... and it breaks like ice cubes ...away....