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The dew in the garden told me
no spinning wheel will hold me.
No deadline will ever glow in my head.
The way the instructions told me,
“You got that energy
condensed into a tiny thing,” they said.

You’ll be someone we’ll never meet.
We’ll be someone.

The gnome in the garden told me,
“Put plastic wrap around everything,
sweat it out in the heat,” he said.
The jade in the window strangled,
the furniture at all angles,
“There is no time for comfort,” he said.

If you’re not rich, you’re lazy.
Your will to work gets hazy.
Don’t bother wasting your life
just getting out of bed.
Wake up at the worldwide summit,
watch all these numbers plummet;
we spend our days predicting the spread
while the kids are getting older
and our bodies getting frailer
and any scent of legacy
just feels absurd and stupid.
And every seven years
we run the shredder, shred the tears,
and send down the River Lethe
the tiny lives we’ve led.

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from Into the Stacks, released August 1, 2014

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Lives of the Obscure New Paltz, New York

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