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From A→Z, poems about family and addiction
In the mirror-world under the lake, everything is upside-down Inverted, reversed, & rippled. Wild Island ponies, head-side-down, press hooves into the water surface from under.In the mirror-world under the lake, Rose andI walk under a lake-bottom skyInstead of stars there are water-weeds, undulating softly up high Instead of your suffering, we talk about movies, because in this opposite place I never lost my mind, and you never tried to drink yours away. In the mirror-world under the lake, I take your offerings from the kitchenIsland, snacks for the plane. // In the real world, I left them. Up here, we are only Inverted versions of each other. Sick in different ways. I see you In a broken mirror. You see me walking away.