L. V., I Found This Poem Suffocating In Your Ashtray

A fortuneteller tells you that one day,
you will break many hearts, including your own.
- L. V.

Death of the Virgin Mary (detail)
Caravaggio
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L. V., i found this poem suffocating in your ashtray

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The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion's L'Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888).

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Tell me honestly: Wasn’t life easier when we were strangers? Wasn’t life easier before we discovered poetry?

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Detail of "The Grasshopper (La Cigale)"
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The blink
of an eye.
The snap
of a finger.
The beat
of a heart.

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Detail of "Mignon"
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Our bodies
are counting
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Vincent van Gogh, Detail of "Starry Night Over the Rhone" (1888)

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If I were Icarus,
I would’ve listened.
I wouldn’t have flown too close to the sun.
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