A contemporary poem about no instructions for this, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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There were no instructions for this: the lamp facing the wall, the door unlocked from the inside, the small device humming at dusk. I wrote nothing down. Some knowledge survives best when it is allowed to remain strange.
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