A Poem by S.H. Fielding
We Birth, we breathe.
We die, we leave.
Life is a warm drink,
swallowed too fast and nurtured too long.
Where do we slide between the hyphen?
Whom do we become before the horizon?
Culture invokes an image,
a facade to be desired.
Some fallacies…
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