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Saturday, February 5, 2011
Everything is Written in Pencil
by Chris Butler
The eraser
chafes
the paper,
tainting
blank canvasses
with the graphite
ghosts of my
mistakes,
until my skin
sloughs
off dead
tree cells
and brushes the
consequences of
thoughtless actions
away.
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Cath Barton
February 6, 2011 at 5:53 AM
A lovely poem
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A lovely poem
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