Lighthouse

A poem

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He chose his words carefully
like a living poem
or like a person trying to be a living poem
which is close enough to the same thing

and he said once that on the inside,
everyone is like an opera
(four hour epics on falling in love
and the death of empires —
— I wrote this down so
I wouldn’t forget)
and at another moment
he called…