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If they find us

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If They Find Us

If they find us
(long after we are gone)
trapped
in the corners of their machines
figures etched in metal
they will say
What an interesting place
for a stain

If they find us
our scattered skeletons just jumbled
collections of ones and ohs
(other ways of making, other ways of saying)
they will be subtler variations
on our theme: fa so la ti cee ae gee
as though unfolded once, simplified
we become ghosts
only half of what we used to be

If they find us (traces
of who we used to be)
they will not find us
in what they consider
history, mistaken memories
of what might have happened
but rather just left
among the apocrypha, unaccepted
because we could not
find a simple enough articulation
to describe our dreams
completely
Consider it a 3/4 draft. It doesn't segue as nicely as I'd like it to, but it's a good start. Probably one of the final poems for Ghosts. I don't think I'm going to get to twenty, but I'm already moving on to other themes.

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5.17.04 - If you're looking for the old poem, it was replaced with the final draft.
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noctambula's avatar
the ending is a soft landing
after the travel of words

:)