Friday, December 13, 2013

49

I'm returning to the words. 
The absence may be accounted for 
And counted out 
In a language older than this.
Numbers like feathers, like sand,
Light on the 3 column pages,
Sift through the double lines.
A desert in my heart
Turning a man's labor,
His hours away from home,
Into bread and shingles. 
The taxing business of living,
Of owning what cannot be taxed.  


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