Sunday, November 25, 2012

Other(ness)


Sense of Other  (classmates and otherness)

mental locks

wrapped in chains

Felt at home since they started moving

reading stories in symbols

my symbols,
their symbols,

not the other
the self
twice repeated
centuries reflected
mirrored

around blurred edges

within who
every
one wishes
they did     not
notice

homeless or placeless
we have to define a home

we are the less
we are the other
they
telling time through
foot beats
beating through the night

knowing the swings
of a city
ghost images
we can’t see through
transit
we felt at home since we
started
                  moving

the other or the
double?
When does the other
obscure
and turn
into occurring

dream

the other is the interior doorway
opened at the crossroads
peering through glass windows
they see what we refuse to
hear.

the other is invisible

living within the cracks
in sidewalks
painted.


A Name

Her name changed
(twice)
she calls her self at night
collecting
the letters needed
and start again
who does know
which name
she always is
never have her
shadows fallen
(twice)




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