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No Speck in My Eye

January 18, 2015
By cosmos4242 GOLD, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania
cosmos4242 GOLD, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
I don't know where I'm going but I promise it won't be boring." -David Bowie


digits slip over stick of metal and plastic

in a desk drawer that only rests in folds of the night

 

with no speck in my eye

and a flashlight in my palm

and a black bic in the other

I fold into a temporal pleat

 

a speck in the eye makes it hard to see

hard to think down through shrouded fingers

that don't feel watched


The author's comments:

"A speck in your eye" is a Russian idiom for being sleepy. 


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