Is it to measure requited love in volumes of blood and tears 

that some use fingernails 

on the tender skin of love?

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Do milk powder cartons blush in secret 

when they think of the dark secrets they help hide?

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Did the pebble that was displaced in the laying of roadway 

weep for want of communal crush or 

smile at personal escape from genocide that took its family?

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If key tags had virtual communities 

would their conversations amount to 

sharing exciting news 

or 

just versions of the same story?

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If there was a central sorting station to 

un-sort all seasons greetings 

so all the world receives wishes 

from strangers, 

would we become 

closer or more estranged? 

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In blank-worlds 

are expressions necessarily blank 

and 

do kisses cross each other out 

into happy oblivion? 

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Forgotten melodies:
do they sing in other people's minds
or
do they disappear in the cacophony of latest hits?

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