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WHEN YOU RUN OUT OF AIR? (poemoff2)

February 27th, 2007 by Zack

WHEN YOU RUN OUT OF AIR?

black galleons eat the sky

until all the clouds are gone

and our skin is burned bare

the madonna of chandeliers

in her dress of broken beer bottles

sits weeping in your desert

the sand dances around her

each grain a word you said

and you are all i hear, but

she cannot hear anything

black galleons ate the sky

and stars loom large—cold

and dead

notes: the title of this poem comes from tiffany’s “the protestant ethic”

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