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Natalie Shapero
You Look Like I Feel
You Look Like I Feel
You Look Like I Feel
Dirt on my chin and I wonder: am I alreadyin the ground? Like a toy turned real, I cannot shed
the sense that I have died. The German word
for Heaven’s the same
as the German word for sky. On hearing a cruel
prince was in danger, I prayed for him to thrive,
not for his own sake, but for the concubines,
sure to end up buried
along. To my real face, a man once crowed
I RUINED YOU, and though he did, the joke’s
on him: he ruined me only for this world,
and this world is not long
for itself. The Earth, that ever-loving
but distrustful kin, keeps leaving us just a little
pocket money when it dies, never the land –
© 2013, Natalie Shapero
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You Look Like I Feel
Dirt on my chin and I wonder: am I alreadyin the ground? Like a toy turned real, I cannot shed
the sense that I have died. The German word
for Heaven’s the same
as the German word for sky. On hearing a cruel
prince was in danger, I prayed for him to thrive,
not for his own sake, but for the concubines,
sure to end up buried
along. To my real face, a man once crowed
I RUINED YOU, and though he did, the joke’s
on him: he ruined me only for this world,
and this world is not long
for itself. The Earth, that ever-loving
but distrustful kin, keeps leaving us just a little
pocket money when it dies, never the land –
You Look Like I Feel
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