Parallel Streams

Ars Poetica

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The poet speaks
through each timeline
coiling itself
like a python of dying hope
a noose of a burning sorrow
to break free one day
from the room with no doors
and streets that are just the room.
Do you see? Sartre and Beauvoir
naked under the stars talking of
cosmic dust existentialism, and
the irony of the gods? Did you
know absolutism is
a small town gossiping
under streetlamp shadows,
sharpening their pitch…