The uptake

Day One: Write a poem that has the same first line as another poem. I've used the first line from Babel (the voices) by Jessica Beyer.

There is, as you know, only one story.
It's the one that begins and ends
in the same place - a loud darkness
bereft of genius. But not all science
is gone here. There is a good thought
somewhere between the Higgs Boson
and the decision to stay up too late
watching reruns of Adam West Batman.  
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Playing on my iTunes at this very moment:
Foo Fighters, Everlong (acoustic)

Crystallinity

A life is like glass:
easy to see through, but then
in an instant, clouds.

A life is like water:
flowing and constant, but then
it evaporates.

What a life is not:
an ordered, stable landscape.
Where's the fun in that?
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Playing on my Spotify at this very moment:
The Head and the Heart, Rivers and Roads

No one is there except all of us

He's been worn
and shed, hung up
as an old coat,
battered with brooms
and with old rakes
to shake off the dust.

"I will not be a sheep,
crying to be fed."
He clenches his teeth,
stretches his lips,
works out the stiffness
brought on by nerves.

He convinces himself,
so that he may convince them.
"And when I am no more -
and I will be no more -
I will be validated
or I will be vilified."
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Playing on my iTunes at this very moment:
Shad, I Get Down

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