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If all words surrounding this issue weren’t clumsy and cliche

If talking weren’t like a strange game,

Like trying to balance

Seashells in a box filled with sand

Without friction or grit

And if all requests were being granted

I’d ask

For all words surrounding this issue

To cradle me like the happy swing of a rocking chair

For a moment if just that.

And if nature [...]