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poetry/v/viaje.txt

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+viaje
+2018-02-15
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+***
+
+a ticket fell into my hands today
+a train ride, a trip of a lifetime
+to a gash wider than the crevice in my heart
+severed three- no, four years ago
+
+I turn the ticket over in my hand
+a ring sounds, never stopping for four years hence
+no matter how hard I try to block the number
+it still finds a way to slither in
+
+I study the stub at the end of the ticket
+a siren-song of total freedom
+roaming around the world- or the country, at least- in a house on
+wheels
+because home is where you choose it to be- everywhere and nowhere
+
+I slip the ticket into my book as a bookmark
+and close the pages and look out the window
+the clouds are parting, the moon is full
+and I'm ready to jump
+but it's not my time yet
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander

poetry/v/victor.txt

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+victor
+2018-05-25
+
+***
+
+I look out on the horizon
+at the fearful monsters standing halfway between the horizon and me
+no longer able to be ignored and pushed off
+for a future me to deal with
+
+I prepare my weapons
+a pen which I had assumed was lost
+and a half-dying tablet
+and prepare to meet my fate
+
+like I'm falling into a vortex of fire
+prepared to meet my doom
+and yet still worse than the most cowardly
+of a litter of mewling kittens
+
+when we next meet
+it shall be as victors
+freedom tasting sweeter than the most sugary wine
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander