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I am Chris Purdie - The Poem After the Performance

Vulnerability: a moment of silence
where everyone gathers to speak

The body, a better listener, takes comfort in knowing 
it didn't have a choice

Cross-examination is in fashion after all; in defense of taboo
the tongue well-intended, what's left of credentials if we're subtle like we should be

Your olive branch, the treacherous tête-à-tête, can still be in good taste
though the transcript may not include our names

Language has made liars of us all; silence is precision
binding the clauses of conversation; the awkward

pause, merely a figure of speech
unless performed in earnest

Your sense of certainty - a luminous window 
my apprehension, a runaway skateboard

Enough with the transparent peace offerings; I'm aiming
at your expectations

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