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On the Third Floor

January 3, 2013
By amanda_a BRONZE, Chesapeake, Ohio
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Haunting factory smells
fill the third floor.

Rusty stenches
stain clothes.

Light's absence
causes desolation

fooling you:
are you underground?

Then water droplets ring
like a metronome,

dripping endlessly-
or endless echoes of a single drop?

© Steve S., Marblehead, MA

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This poem is about an image I had in a dream.
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