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Puppets

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Little puppets
Your arms relaxing
Looks like
You’re stretching as you wake up
But instead you’re getting ready to sleep
In my little doll-chest
Your limp strings tangle

Perhaps Atropos can sort you out.

Before I close the box
I contemplate your clothes
They don’t suit any of you
He’s wearing a fine suit
She’s coiffed and corseted
His smile.
Her frown.
Everyone’s mixed up
in this wooden masquerade

Perhaps Atropos can sort you out.

And as I close the box
Shroud you in darkness
And stuffy air
The back of my hands
Ache
And as I look up to my master
I see only the strings
Reach back
Into the box.

Perhaps Atropos can sort me out.
Bored in Civ and thinking of something Erin said.
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kontanshikaku's avatar
We are puppets, all.

I really like this, Jackson.