Friday, January 24, 2014

Why I Write, Part x+252: Mirror Mirror, in the Dark

It's fashionable to wonder who people see
Every morning, every night, when they look in the mirror,
and to wonder who those people are in the dark,
But I've found philosophy the lightest of larks,
'Cause I won't look in the mirror, away from what I write,
and unlike using the mirror, it's not contingent upon light.
In fact, I'll happily stay at it long into the night,
Writing in pitch air tinted only by the screen's glow
and by the nuclear fire deep down in my bones,
and though to say so out loud seems dishonest, seems lame,
The man in the mirror and the dark–in all times–are the same.

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