Reading Them

one day i was reading
the voice inside my head
kicked out my eye balls
closed my eye lids from the inside
sewed them shut
with incoherent threads
of black ink
i blinked ten pages of words
i was unable to remember
who i wrote the words for
my lines traced their thoughts
and silhouetted their faces
which hid
their true identities
from themselves
they did not read
what was written
about them

jrg
4/24/06
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