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what happens to a sound deferred?
for how long can it burn
within, unheard?
for how long can it blench
taut skin to paste--
for how long can it lay
the heart waste?
how long can it hold
itself to itself,
setting fire to bone,
leaving face a blank hearth?
how long can it claim
the allegiance of silence
before silence itself
turns cold eyes
on self-violence?
in the violate quiet,
heart, mind,
rent
from meaning
the vise of all sound
nothing but brute pressing--
what happens
to a sound unsaid?
does it forget?
what happens to a sound unknown?
does it explode?
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