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Chorus 1
In archwayed roofs
we
sit beneath
our lives that’ll
continue moving
without
stopping to rearrange
for what we most
need.
Chorus 2
When silence
stops
on the corner
to eat & the
food cart.
Chorus 3
Making sounds out of moments
we’ll find ourselves again,
tell us ourselves
that this was not
what was really desired
so make it up again
once more on time
struck between mines
we will stop.
Chorus 4
We buy things to keep us moving ,
isn’t that what WE’re told
to do? Now that you’re here
we might find another activity –
or, more, maybe we will speak to
each other like life was meaningful
& we meant something, one another.
By Frank G. Karioris
Frank G. Karioris (he/they/him/them) is a writer and educator based in Pittsburgh whose writing addresses issues of friendship, masculinity, and gender. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, Collective Unrest, Maudlin House, Sooth Swarm Journal, and Crêpe & Penn amongst others. They are a regular contributor to Headline Poetry & Press.
Twitter: @FrankGKarioris