these manifestos

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or statements

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let's call them manifestos as they are to do with art

 

they say things from people who may or may not be real

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they are not necessarily who i am

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alter egos perhaps

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or the child i once was and still am

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or just all the  people i have been

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maybe you have been

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maybe those i wish i could be

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maybe those you wish you could be

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or we would be in another life

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the only rule is the word words must be in each one

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sometimes the writing is funny

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even to all of the versions of myself that think it's profound

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you can laugh too this isn't holy scripture

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or serious

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or sexy and bold and rebellious 

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is it?

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sometimes they say the opposite of what i mean

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or what you interpret

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or they say what i can't say out loud

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or to someone

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to that feeling of love and hate

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desperately clinging to everything that could mean something

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and then trying once more to make sense of it all

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writing it down to understand

 

to say it out loud

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to express

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free speech?

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i guess so

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or a perpetual battle against the limitations imposed 

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by words