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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

is there, then, a vortex?

shall we turn down
the covers, crawl inside?
find there a place
that’s been waiting
for us, a vortex of sorts
swirling with the best
elements working always
in concert? can you see
it also,  just outside
any doubt? maybe
it’s made up, like any
story is, but isn’t it
a much better one?
and if it isn’t just
our best possible
fiction, if there is
then, a vortex waiting
with everything, why
not crawl inside?
find out
for ourselves, maybe
call it home.

(2014)

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