<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Invisible Man, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">The life, of, an ordinary man like you or me, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>An Umbrella, Floated in Mid-Air, a Pair of Shoes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Duplicating Yesterday’s Passageway</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>With the Leftover Secrets, Kept Shut in by the Earphones</em></p>
<p>here he is, it&#8217;s, hard to see him though&#8230;<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.occasionalplanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/invisible-man.jpg" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Love Songs Played on, Keeping My Temperatures Constant</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Pulling Tightly on the Rings, Courteously, Dodged One Another’s Gazes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Underground in This Big City, Seeing the Blurred Reflections of a Few Unknown Faces</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Darkened, Flattened, Paled by Comparison to the</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Life-Like Expressions We’d Bought with the Virtual Coins on the Communication Apps</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>There’s This Thin-Layer of Symbolism Behind These Emoticons:</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Children, Pregnant Ladies, Elderly, and</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Those Who are Immobilized, in These Simple Diagrams</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Became, the Same Souls Sitting</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>An Invisible Man Like Me</em></p>
<p><img src="https://adobe99u.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/nobody.png" />here&#8217;s, our Mr. Nobody&#8230;not my picture&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Sitting in that Second-Rate Theatre, I Knew, that Every Seat</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Is Already, Taken by the Lights and the Sounds, After the Movie Was Over</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>There are, the Tracks of the Tears that Remained, in the Vacantness</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Dreams Leaked Out of the Faucets Like Water</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Dirty Dishes Already, Washed Themselves</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Day after Day, This Silent Film Played on</em></p>
<p><img src="https://lonerwolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/I_am_a_nobody.jpg" />someone who&#8217;s not who s/he appeared to be&#8230;photo from online&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>We’d Recited Our Separate Lines to Ourselves Silently: Making a Living</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>On Staying Up All Night, Every Lost Rain Drop Became</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>An Eye that’s Lost Its Temperature, for a Fuller Tomorrow</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Refused to Put that Dent on the Pillows</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>To Not Show Oneself in its Original Form</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Heavy, But Transparent, in the Constantly Replaying Dreams</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Connecting to an Opposite Passageway Half in a Daze—I Need to Get Away</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I Want to, Join in with the Millions and Billions of Ghosts, of Spirits</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Flying, Past that Multi-Colored, Multi-Formed Cycle of Life</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So, this, is what the life cycle looks like, what we amount to, at the end of our workdays, is nothing more than a beat and tired out form of human beings…</p>
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