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a literary magazine.
Diminishing
in the mirror of your adolescent boredom
you see without recognition
the future of age, all the useless
knowledge of everything that's been done
before and repeated
the sayings of idiots
repeated
how depth becomes shallow
and you end up staring from a car window
listening to a classical tune, realising
your interest in anything
is diminishing day by day
Michael Blackburn lives in Lincolnshire, England. Poet, desultory scribbler and decommissioned don, he is a veteran of ancient poetry wars.
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