By Button poetry
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One of the submissions from the 2019 Button Poetry video contest.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
00:03
(funky music)
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– Lazy denim jacket boy with beats for brains.
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Jazzy spinning days of clouds like
00:12
linen rain a decrescendo’s silent still.
00:17
Loud blues vying for room out these windows,
00:20
tinted indigo cold souls hushed
00:22
have truce and what does she have to do with you?
00:28
I counted the constellations on your skin and
00:31
prayed for a heart to forgive.
00:33
Broken bed legs and lying languid limbs,
00:36
jukebox of the double jointed affairs
00:39
between her and she, she and him.
00:41
What happens to a love?
00:44
Not forgotten or lost,
00:46
but paused.
00:50
A blue moon of distant tides like
00:52
hummingbird cries and forgive me.
00:56
Staccato soldier ringing on your left,
00:58
facing toward the sun
01:00
we almost could have had but it’s dusk now
01:03
and your skin has never looked
01:05
more like heaven’s teardrops.
01:08
The morning dew of our infidelities
01:11
or felt like the sound of a love’s last breath.
01:17
A decrescendo, silent, still.
01:21
(funky beat fades out)
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Photo credit: Screenshot from video
