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This is the beginning of the story,
when there isn't a story.
Pages haven't flipped like seconds
no longer ticking.
Was there comfort in the sound?

And then you're rolling downhill.
dirt cold as shade, cold as wet fingers
and rocks flying everywhere. you were
running
from the descent of your boulder,
from your perpetual zenith.
You'll feel the stone against you again.
I promise.

I'll see her again: I used to
want to every day.
a cold sunrise every morning, it was just
so much light in a window.
I almost fell out of bed to meet her.

I fight against entropy. I laugh
and stay angry. I fight and argue with myself.
I shout a poem in my living room,
burn it in my kitchen.
I leave the exhaust off so that smoke
will stain the walls.

I fight against death and feel nothing,
becoming a dead thing myself, blank-faced
at the funeral, the quietest one there for
months, I lie in the softest inertia until
I can only see the end but keep going
just faster

the stone spins on a finger.
It wobbles as it slows.
it starts to feel rough against your skin
like you were waiting for.
It'll drop.

In the end there's no story.
Nothing is learned.
A papercut.
Flip the book over.
Tear the pages out,
press them into rocks.

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from Live at The Sickhouse, released December 24, 2014
thanks to John Paul for philoso-babble in the middle of the day

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Stephen Lin Poetry Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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