Tuesday, March 1, 2011

In Like a Lamb

Who are the dead?
a girl asked
in a dream,

a girl who
was herself nothing
but part of that dream,

a ghost, whether
of the spirit
or of the synapses.

We are the dead,
the poem answered
out of the dream,

We are the dead,
and that is the best,
most beautiful thing.

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