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Irony
March 20, 2015
They think it's just an abstract catchphrase,
this moribund obsession
with eternal oblivion or floating in space;
they go back to breathing
while you paint galaxies across your fingernails.
When they think inevitable, they envision vast gaps of time,
of a future with epiphanies and ancestry...
you see it in the breeze just beyond your fingertips.
I wonder if they realize,
with your long sleeves sly smiles --
able to laugh at misery and romanticize apathy,
that you died awhile back.
© Nita T., Wendell, NC
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