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My brain says

Start

Write

Go

And yet

My body

Stays still

My mouth

Still shut

My feelings

Shut down

I try to grasp the pencil

To speak

To move

And yet

I stay

With the same

Blank face

Sitting in a chair

In the same dull pose

As if

My mind

Is only

A blank

Slate

.

BLANK SLATE

NOMI LEWKOWICZ