Let us pass this around
It fills pages, and makes a special kind of sound
Let us look at all the kinds of applause
Clicks, shares, lists, epigraphs, laws
Now turn it over, press play
Yes, these are the tools of back in the day
Tape with a pencil controlled
Beautiful and powerful and new because it is old
But this is not a riddle
It’s less about the ends than the middle
Neither love nor anger
But a celebration of every kind of hunger
Because there are words for this
For the snap, the blink, the belly-rumble, the hiss
But if it were something we could name
We wouldn’t need so much paper to maim, and maim, and maim
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Matthew Daniels
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I'm here to explore the natures of stories and the people who tell them.
My latest book is Interstitches: Worlds Sewn Together. Check it out: https://www.engenbooks.com/product-page/interstitches-worlds-sewn-together
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