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pikaroadkill — The Treasury Turned Into Salt
Published: 2008-04-28 20:55:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 174; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 10
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Description The snow fell like ash on a Monday afternoon,
Disappearing upon contact and forgotten.
Flower blooming in the snowy depths
Of this dark and defiant April shower.

Meanwhile,
I watched money flow like a river
Into an ocean of ink.
I shielded my eyes from the glow of the sun
As the treasury turned into salt.

I wanted to fly,
But was afraid of falling.
Not quite the cruelest twist of fate.
I filtered the light through a cellophane ceiling,
And drenched myself with the green of the spring.

I'm using an ottoman as a stool,
A coffee table as my bed.
The thorns protrude from my nape,
And they sting my ego,
Bleeding out my pride as I sleep.
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Comments: 3

tetrarchangel [2008-09-02 19:31:46 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic poem - deliciously peculiar lexis and a potent sense of unease...

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pikaroadkill In reply to tetrarchangel [2008-09-02 21:25:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot. A lot of my recent work has been experiments in surrealism and philosophy, so I was very glad with the way this one turned out.

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tetrarchangel In reply to pikaroadkill [2008-09-03 16:29:55 +0000 UTC]

I can encourage you, it really did work - keep up the experimentation, it's definitely paying off.

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