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Subject: imitation of joy

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Date Posted: 03/16/05 7:21:30pm Wed

Where the trees make evening
Even more abandoned,
how languidly
your final step has vanished,
like the flower that scarce appears
on the linden, insistant on it's fate.

You seek a motive for the feelings,
experience silence in your life.
Mirrored time reveals to me
a different destiny. Beauty flashing
now in other faces, saddens me
like death.
I have lost every innocent thing,
even in this voice, surviving
to imitate joy.

*by Vittorio Sereni*

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