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Tom Beckett



Notes Between Notes


Touching myself
I touch
Someone else


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Looking in
That fucking
Mirror I

Can’t remember
When I
Saw you last


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The strangeness
In the mirror

Is what
One fears most


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The seam

Between what
Is seen
And felt

Reams me

It’s unseemly


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Two
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&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp The threshold of sense
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Back


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You say

I’m full
Of myself

Not true

We’re full
Of others

You keep
Repeating myself


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All of us
Possessed & porous

Pointlessly sutured
Against the wet


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In the end
It is how
Speech balloons
Deflate as
Avatars squeak


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I hear
Fret buzz
In that
Last stanza

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