A contemporary poem about a useful thing goes quiet, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The useful thing went quiet first. No glow, no click, no obedient answer. I held it up to the light and saw how much of my life was borrowed. The quiet did not condemn me. It merely stopped helping.
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