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then get hurt for their song
I've seen the ambitious cry
for they still don't belong
I've smelled the lowly die
right out in the street
felt glory firsthand
as I tasted defeat


the process of nothing

1. flower box

a yearling,
that one-sun rose
dressed finalized
in greeting




2. the magic box

spaceship, tulip
fool the foot remains
the miracle would be
to bleed silver

3. accordion

one learns love like an old accordion
between the gasps and wheezes of flattened gratitude
the oom-pah, the industrial
an eon
this mistranslation
I love so