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Thursday 21 October 2010

A recycled tongue.


Permanently cursed,
Symmetrically cut
In the middle, on either sides,
Branches of a tree.

I shall make it personal.
Just re-attached, it retracts.
Disgust comes with a sigh

It might chew itself to death,
Unspeakable postmodernity.

I try to make it mine.
Perhaps it is because
It has no spine that

It bends, shapeless
Monstrosity, worse
Than any other liar.

At the bottom of the sea
It might have been,
it missed out on a

Romantic momentum.
It was most probably
A dried pebble in a sac

Among other dirty sins.
There is no symmetry

To the sounds. It is not
Only you that cannot
Understand it.

Its movements rebound
In the hollow of sleek
Waters. One day it will

Die, a dry web into
The ground. Its bodily
Flickers will never be

Mine. It cannot belong to….  

1 comment:

  1. Great ecopoem! Enjoyed reading it. Thanks for the post, Mary. Keep it up an on.
    很棒的生态诗!我很喜欢。继续加油吧!

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