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From a Box of Dreams

byTzara©

As I opened that slim volume of Cixous,
a bookmark emerged
and fluttered to the floor like a moth,

exhausted
from hovering all night
around the light at the foot of the stairs.

I picked it up—a ticket for Le Métro
and like a madeleine dipped in tea
a vision, struck

not from memory but desire,
saw the two of us holding hands
in the Tuileries

watching the toy sailboats, marking time
until we could once again
test the sturdiness of our iron bed.

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by twelveoone09/02/12

Everything

is in place, supports what the poem intends. I was wrong in previous comment. Awesome

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by greenmountaineer08/31/12

Top shelf as usual, Tzara.

"watching toy sailboats, marking time
until we could once again
test the sturdiness of iron beds."

sounds better to me, but perhaps more than one iron bed is my id exagerratingmore...

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by twelveoone08/30/12

5 btw

appears to be too much off the page, not the wasteland, bring it back just a little more, lovely moth thing (loaded). Of course i could be totally wrong.

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by tazz31708/30/12

BEDS ARE ALSO FOR SLEEPING

as well as some gymnastics, TK U MLJ LV NV

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