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which way is up?

"I woke up to a sky painted."

A sky painted.

                       A sky out of a painting

                                                          A painted sky.

 

little more than a stroke and a scribble

Dibbling paint and macabre waves

Against a smoky canvassed page.

This deadening sky did not whisper

                           This deafening sky did not scream

This soulless sky did not whimper

                             Or call me and beg to be seen.

 

The painted sky pains me

Because the painted sky

Traps me

On this shapeless

Never-ending vanilla page

It etches and sketches and binds me.

I look left and right

Try to tell the north from the west

But the further I get

The closer I am

To not knowing anything at all.

 

The painted sky reminds me

That for every lover

Every friend

There is a farewell

An inexplicable

Inescapable

Almost abrupt

Fanatical

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