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Summary
I wrote this a very long time ago as a response to a picture prompt — and secretly loved it — but I was paralyzed by all the things I knew were wrong with it. I kept it in a folder labelled “to edit” for three years, and never touched it. Today is the day I am finally giving it up, giving it away, imperfections and incoherence and non-canon backstory and all.
The tone of black and blue was influenced in part by a poem by Pavel Zajicek.
New York - Prague - Paris : Pavel Zajicek
I wrote a tale of three cities
a tale of death and silence
a tale of chaos
a tale of grief and a tale of celebrations
the morning sun’s behind my window
and nothing is as it is…
new york prague paris
I wrote a tale of aimless wandering
a tale about a labyrinth
a tale of “an artist who doesn’t give a shit about art”
a tale of the sounds of a city
a tale of light and darkness
the morning sun’s behind my window
and nothing is as it is…
prague paris new york
I wrote a tale
that I burnt
a tale of a theatre of cruelty and silence
a tale of night birds
a tale of a terrible dream
a tale of bloody tears
a tale of a foreboding that the end is nigh
the morning sun’s behind my window
and nothing is as it is…
new york prague paris
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