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Flora Field
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All of the Prompts Fail Me
Despite my best intentions
I cannot get on board with the arbitrary.
This should be prefaced
with “these days” or
some other modifier of time.
For there was in the past
a time of great preoccupation
with objects. An interest in
even a need to distill them down
to their most fundamental parts.
And then taking those parts.
Adding them up and removing
and recombining until
something more could be said.
These days, I take nothing
to task. At the top of the stairs
in the small room I stare
at the objects around me
and beg them to take on
a meaning beyond their own.
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