Faltering voices
I don’t know much about Marlon Brando
other than he’s much like the universe
complex & full of contradictions
Makes me think of Hemingway whom I’ve
read is complex & full of contradictions
having an affinity for that split
second before death
I once knew this girl in high school
she sang just like Janis Joplin
her voice masterful & voluminous
as if projecting from another world
complex yet uncontradictory
november two thousand twenty-four
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