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The lizard cannot stamp its feet ·
securely on the wall.

There is no air in its feet.
Air is a:ttachment.
The overwhelming pathetic song of Nur-Je'..han
Suffocates the air with melancholy.:' ·
The pale cheeks of the wall wait
Wait for one who never turns.up.
Air encapt:ured in the room coughs
With perfumery smokes and sighs.
The riff-raff air is a despired mob.
The ant is inspired by escapist; spiri:tuali'ty.
The strengtl,l of tq.at
Non-ci'bjecti~e poetry
Is spirit:
Ant.
The lizard. expresses its .surrealistic sorrow.
Unborn and deathless th~- air is
Destined nowhere,
Like the sub-conscious last couplet .
. '
. . . .. . . . ... ·- ... , ... '
Ringing· the echo of sadness
In the cracks of the heart;
Whoever goes on the stair · ca.s~
That the lizard cannot creep_?
That is why
Having.· lost both
Subject and Object
I say
There isn't much pain .
Even then,
I say it deliriously . . ,_.
In the language of the vacuous lizard , .
While I bleed.

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