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Random Poem:

Penalty of Shrug Kiss
idomis

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." --"The Litany Against Fear by the Bene Gesserit," Frank Herbert's Dune
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My hands peel at my door's rectangular mirror
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We once used. Mirror from someone:
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          A previous, nameless tenant who left it, maybe
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          for us, wishing we would look -- always good
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(this was the tenant's mirror, your mirror, my mirror.
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anonymous faces of familiar strangers
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reflecting sultry kisses in this sad room)
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The mirror barely scratches my mercurial surface
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After we left each other. Someone stole our sacred kisses:
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          Present people crossing our drifting paths
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          I am wooden on this burden, I look so bad.
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we don't own mirrors; as you see
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changing partners, rapid thieves of time
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we don't own mirrors; beautiful like Mercury we may be.
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