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Still Life
Page 220
Ten thousand titles, maybe more.
People bowing without speaking,
People indexing while leaking,
People writing texts that no one dared to read—
They all agreed:
It’s safer here
In the sounds of compliance.
“Fools,” said Gregory, “you do not know
Silence like a chandelier glows.
Hear my flicker that I might teach you,
Grieve my wiring that I might reach you.”
But my words, like misremembered rites,
Fell out of sight
And echoed back
As the sounds of compliance.
And the silence bowed and took its place
In the glossary of sacred waste.
And the chandelier softly blinking
Mocked the solemn tone of thinking.
And the signs said, “The words of the prophets are revised
And monetized—
Then filed away
In the sounds of compliance.”
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