I've seen it all

All

Every bit of a thing

the pebble to the caterpillar

the candy bar rapper

to the ant who lost its' colony

-

All the bits of the things

did not move under the bulb

-

They all tumbled around the fire

paralyzed in nothingness

time really really

stood still

-

What we all begged for

materialized

-

All the things

stood the stillest of still

-

Time held its tongue out for droplets of fire

to numb leaflets of nothingness

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I swear I don't know what anything should be called

All I know is that this lantern capsulized it

All

-

None of the things moved

past the light in the decorated cage

-

I ease my fingers along

the putrid scales of mendacity

I beckon the block to dissolve

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But the lantern's wizardry dictates solidarity

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All the things loom under the light