Memory crackles, like a car radio stuck on AM

The Fifth Dimension singing about the sky, and all I see is dancing

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Toes just over the threshold

of where the water meets the land

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A cliffhanger, on the outer edge of the chapter, later,

dangling on the precipice, with fingertips touching tips of paper;

The plot thickens, stops, then starts back up again with barely a sound,

as the reader, bathed in silence, deep inside story, barely looks around

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I'm bending my words here on the page, turning meaning by twisting rhymes, and for result's sake, I'll grant the poem some time, a little space, and myself, some room in which to breathe, with grace

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Sit, then, for a spell - this portrait of canvas and ink takes time, but your thoughts are your own stories to tell

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The wind, fluttered; the words, bold as if etched in gold, flew like a banner rather than flag, and you were the one to finally ask, as we walked by, what the colors meant, and why

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‘Presidents Are Not Kings’ – Judge Tanya Chutkan

and if they were, they'd be gone before dusk

the urge to fantasize about regicide sleeps deep inside of us

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I'll take fate of the Earth for five hundred, he offered, and knew in the moment of the answer being asked that the question was already in jeopardy

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In the society of kids, clandestine, and operational, the secrets we shared were always of upmost importance, and always out of earshot of any adults worth noticing

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That boy ran circles around Mister Wilson and all the others on the brittle printed pages of Sunday morning comic strips - that boy, the energetic, ever-impulsive menace known as Dennis

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