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Found Fragment (Torn Lengthwise)

by Paul • September 18, 2004 • 09:52 PM • Comments: 1

This may appear to violate a cardinal rule, but what follows is not, despite its appearance, poetry. I found it today when I was sitting on a cafe patio reading as the storm approached. It blew past, a long thin strip of paper, the left two inches of a letter written in the tiny meticulous handwriting of a woman. I grabbed it out of the wind. I reconstructed what I could of partial words. Inferences are welcome.

Don’t
you and
behavior
couple

relieved
recurring
silent, or
interfere
said,
to chat
disappear
late, some
accompl[ish]
Something
made up
impossible
interfere

what I
heart.
that all
honest
explain
to rid
trying
only to
Above
really I
vacant
to blam[e]
now
didn’t
stares
enemy
any
presence
cautious.
a little

Too ma[ny]
that I
time to
that you
hell, and
I’ve been
because
to you.
confusio[n]


Comments

anne on September 19, 2004 12:05 AM

you should send it to FOUND.
http://www.foundmagazine.com/

it's weird how defensive it sounds. is it the double "interefere"?


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