“I am addressing someone whom you do not know but who is there, at the end of my maxims”
–Roland Barthes
He talks to himself
As if possible
To be
Who she imagines
Someone he might
Have been
If she had spoken
In complete sentences
Someone you might
Have become
If I had listened
To the end of my sentence
But no one listens
To anything he says
(June 12, 2017)
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