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Vincent Clay

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In British soap operas
important domestic scenes often take place
                                                                                with music
                                                playing muffled
from upstairs – the room
of a teenager.

Familiar contemporary songs
losing distinction as they pass
through the ceiling
irrelevant to the scene in view
a scene in a storyline
that will fade by next week
and never be replayed.
 

Your life
might be
such a song.

 
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