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Oct 13 • 5 tweets • 1 min read

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archimedes' daughter

i reached for the stars
a hundred thousand times
twisting and turning into improbable shapes
i almost broke myself in half
and then said fuck it
i'll settle for love

and out went the arms again
into the crowded highway of hearts
meeting nothing but empty air
always just that much short of
touching the right one at the right time
and then said fuck it
i'll settle for comfort

and every lovely desirable thing whirled by
on a carousel no reaching arm could stop
though i flailed and spun myself dizzy trying

collapsing in despair i saw i was cemented to the earth
that all my reaching was a cosmic joke
for like a horse harnessed to a millwheel
condemned to scribe the same round track
day in day out

i could not disturb my circles

© 2016 RC deWinter
Published in MONO
June 2021

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