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     $$ $$                          "Fabricated Angst"
     $$ $$                          written by X-tabai
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Fabricated Angst
by X-tabai

Another poem, plain package
smuggled through my fingers
under cover of loneliness.

Trite subject - paper cut love,
stinging with lemon memory,
salted by cynical prophecy.

Time wasted; words weathered
from storms of repetition. My life,
a tornado trashed trailer park.

But what was the instrument -
a pen, paper, my own strained voice
pulling down imaginary walls.

Muse of tragedy lies broken
beneath a dirt bed of neglect. I think
she never really sang for me -

I sang for myself.

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