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YOU LOOKED AT ME

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Person, what is a person?
What are your worries and thoughts?
A person is life recording itself.
They will burn your diaries
and even Mozart’s music will be lost
when life stops recording itself
and all life ends and giant sleep
overtakes all. Do you get this?
Are you memorizing this and getting it down?
It is from a tremendous height
that I am hoping you do.
I won't be able to keep my poems.
Nor the memory of you.

You looked at me 
and praised my poetry
and I didn't know what to say.
Only later, when I could think normally again,
did I smile and walk away.
What was the point of the recorded?
Why was everything preserved?
I hated watching myself
getting what I deserved.
The videos disgusted me.
A child learning poetry
is record enough for me.
Return to childhood
and when the sun returns,
count down to three.

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