A Secret Everybody Knows by Addy Miller

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​A Secret Everybody Knows

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How come the stars burn with ineffability?

Yet the underworld scorns the scrying of any world beyond the sidewalk

Kids of the damned, kids of the gutter:

Fill up your mouths with dreams and nectar by the empty light of the moon

For you are already experts of wondering

The blistering fire birthed within you rages by mistake?

No, by design

Look up and forget

Forget

Forget cool speed tipping itself on in

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Addison Miller is a poet and physics student at City College of San Francisco, researching nano-materials at San Francisco State University. His writing focuses on experiences with addiction.

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