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Published: Jul 11, 2012

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Literature Text

_{i'm a rebel in reverse
instead of speaking up
i sew my lips shut.

afraid of violent slips--i
break them apart into versified pieces
of language, refute the emotion.

flip it, cook it, light it,
then spread the ashes on paper.

i survive on
livid&loved literature
struck with awkwardly
enunciated alliteration.

in life,
there's a fixed freezing point:
negative 273 degrees centigrade.
then, after, only hotter, only fire.

i'm afraid those socialite porcelain dolls will blaze up
in a blizzard of snow-white fury.

so, i let the embers and sparks shimmer;
a hypnotic cosmic network of heat,
through this i learn:

you can always have the fire
without the burn.}