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Created on: November 25, 2007
The torn screen glistens
in the October side light.
Each intact square aperture
is bottom lit
with a blinding point.
Each gaping rent,
product of tenacious cat claws,
is framed with glowing pointers.
The jumping spider
haltingly,
robotically
traverses the vertical landscape.
I don't need to smell the screen.
I know precisely how screens
smell and taste.
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