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Flam 33
Poems by Kieren
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"scared to wake"
And scared to wake
from childhood dreams
we built imaginations
from what we had seen
then moved away
to some place free
across the mountains
to the eastern sea
to the halls of learning
physics, astronomy, and maths
to office buildings of towering glass.
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"unimpressed day"
on this unimpressed day
whose nights seem like all others
monotonous and slow
but nearly over
as the sky lightens
outside the window
and you will know it is morning
when the seagulls begin to perch
tapping with beak and wing
the plasticky window pane of glass
and almost soon
the sun will rise
as you examine
the empty coffee pot
and the loud hissing
of steam from beside the stove
and roll over again
with your eyes firmly closed
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she moves through the fair
and it seems darker there
in the corner where she stood
where the air's grown colder
and there lingers
the fragrance of death
across the carnival rides
and merry go rounds
her face becomes a vision
that will someday reappear
in the photographs i took
of the corner where she stood
and i will remember her
the little lonely girl
that moved through the fair
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the end.
