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Siel Ju: Cleaner

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

Something about the noise makes me want to raze the place, build up a new world with steel lego blocks. Clean lego men who don’t sweat. All polished efficiency. A quiet chrome aligned and arranged to fit. Manual labor like pushing paper, bricks in pristine rows, power tools with firearm silencers. Birds hop in and out of a shadow’s precisely demarcated outline. The symphony of muted machines. Soundless joy.

Filed Under: Contributors 80, Issue 80, Poetry, Poetry 80 Tagged With: Contributors 80, Poetry, Poetry 80, Siel Ju

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