.

1
This is
when we speak

2
I feel like the laughing cavalier
sitting in a museum, wearing that smart blazer
looking smugly like the past,
watching myself like watching others smirking
before art, works,
in colors in a bright projection.

1
Smiling, not laughing really
because there is no room for the tragic here, the let down,
only smiling or motionless crying,
vibrating leaves, the emotion from
camping out in the world
with only a scarf and my mementos.

Still I’m afraid about what that means,
to be known by a smile, to smugly stare or

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You both look so absurd
standing in the old time cake light

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I’m invited here and there.
That is where I will go,
replacing the scarf
with an alarm clock,
as you wish.

2
Oh You look like are sound like just like. . .
Enough of repeating

1
This is now, the present,
no repeating.

A pause.

This is what they now call the
present.

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Open it and open it.