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Reduction Doll

By S.L. Fischer

By S.L. FischerPublished 5 years ago 1 min read

These are strings to all things, pulleys and mechanisms for them to work, to live

Wind ups and spinners, buttons and knobs, switches and dials needing force

Deliberate motion to reverse the inertia, the stubborn inertia

Without use things are just as they are, merely matter

There are no more symbols, there are no more ideas

The world is reduced into meaninglessness

Inked paper like forged metal

Like brain tissue the same

As toys God forgot

No motion here

But time still

Aging us

Dolls

surreal poetry

About the Creator

S.L. Fischer

I hope that whatever and wherever these posts end up to be, someone finds them helpful or beautiful. I write because it heals. I write because through it, I am reminded that today there is still time to make life meaningful.

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