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A Self-Enclosed Sorrow<br />
Olga Vaynkof<br />
people become smaller, you know.<br />
Some don't realize .it,<br />
sensing only that their fall will hurt less<br />
the closer they are to the ground.<br />
There is less to hurt;<br />
small stones don't shatter<br />
like boulders do.<br />
People grow smaller. Careful,<br />
or not, they slip between thoughts<br />
and are gone.<br />
Like rings: petite treasures<br />
are lost only once,<br />
ending up tucked away in the night's jam,<br />
unfound forever.<br />
One might gleam them in the grass<br />
or among glass shards small enough<br />
never to be broken again.<br />
They're survived by bastard intestinal pits<br />
and waxed smiles, leaving us to roam<br />
indifferent days, lonely as dial tones.<br />
People grow smaller.<br />
They do.<br />
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