Pantoum: Heed the Shadows

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Pantoum:  Heed the Shadows

©12-13-2013, Olan L. Smith

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Heed the shadows from the periphery and within―

The universe slides down walls casted in black

No living light emits from the black sleep's skin.

You are crushed and you perceive through shellac,

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A universe slides down walls casted in black

Laughs the joker watching tapered candles drip

You are crushed and you perceive through shellac,

Holographic images, a black-hole's workmanship

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Laughs the joker watching tapered candles drip

We are tiny specks...who hears a What?

Holographic images, a black-hole's workmanship

Incantations will not help you from inside a fragment.

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Heed the shadows from the periphery and within―

We are tiny specks...who hears a What?

Incantations will not help you from inside a fragment,

No living light emits from the black sheep's skin.

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