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  by
  Jé Maverick
  
  Tuesday, January 13, 2009
  Don’t look here

  on the days when your voice

  is lost as a mumble, or a slur,

  or a broken song:

  I will be scattered;

  intangible; a pepper

  of smaller traces.
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  by
  Jé Maverick
  
  Sunday, January 11, 2009
  Spirit that the world said no to,

  unwatered wallflower, I recall

  when your days had the mercy

  of callous warlords; when every eye condemned

  with the nature of a solemn judge,

  and burnt you at the stake of fierce indifference.

  How you toiled with that puzzle of ashes; how

  each dawn’s ruthless jackboot kicked them

  from the cradle of your patient hands.

  Darkness assigned your role – cast

  you as a wraith to dwell upon a shadow’s fringe:

  close enough to witness light; enslaved beneath the pall.
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