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A silent film

Sometimes I wish life had a better score than just the foleys. It could be
that I care so much about the music because I have a precarious influence
over the script and the direction seems, to say the least, uncertain, and yet,
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 06/12/2022 1 Minute

By the way

We are going to die. Yes, and we will die in a well-covered silence that changes
nothing—see visitors’ beds, which count the strenuous hours of uneventful sleep
with the precision of borrowed time—a performance reluctantly paid in advance
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 28/11/2022 1 Minute

The importance of being a fool

I’m fine. I’m perfectly fine, I promise. It’s just that I can no longer remember
what it’s like to gently brush my fingers over that brief moment of silence
in anticipation, which, like any attempt to hold on to a long bygone present,
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 21/09/2022 1 Minute

A silent answer

Why am I still jealous of my old flatmate? We parted long ago.
I moved to town with my dusty desk and overloaded bookshelves.
She stayed in the suburbs, with her windowsills full of flowerpots
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 09/09/2022 1 Minute

My deathbed bride

When I close my eyes, will they shine
once you trade my touch piece for the waterway toll?
You know, there is no room for us both,
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 01/08/2022 1 Minute

Nothing left but small talk

When there is nothing left but small talk,
like a sip of water, the silence goes smoothly
along with a bag of scorned books and a bundle
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 26/07/2022 1 Minute

Nothing but silence

His greatest ambition had always been to be uneven,
somewhat passé in every step he took,
as he denied himself too much sense ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 08/02/2022 1 Minute

You were carrying the cup

The poet came to the conclusion
that he lacked a good biography.
He was not a war hero, not even a child of war. ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 21/01/2022 1 Minute

Always trying

He had always wanted to be able to play the piano
or the violin, for that matter, but at this point, Mr. Nothing,
although reluctantly, admitted that he could actually be ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 07/01/2022 1 Minute

all is calm, all is bright

a homeless couple hidden from the rain
under the mercat cross play carols on flutes
to remind strangers what a decent life is, ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 10/12/2021 1 Minute

the moment before i get up

it is five in the morning and my maltese friend just woke me up
to let me know how much he appreciates my stanzas. i am cold.
the temperature dropped below zero, so i moved my mattress ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 28/11/2021 1 Minute

simply fortuitous

i try to understand her whisper
through the sound of the violin,
while someone in the background ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 22/11/2021 1 Minute

it is just a rhyme, is it not?

the old adage says that a picture
is worth a thousand words,
and it is hard to argue with that ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 05/11/2021 1 Minute

the paths of glory

i am nothing but a link
in the reproduction chain,
and still a snob reading elegy ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 28/10/2021 1 Minute

the confession of a liar

listening to the silence of the wise man
in the agora trying to convince me that
i write to leave behind a shadow of my ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 01/09/2021 1 Minute

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