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10-AlphaOmega

Who Needs The Alpha and the Omega

Everything I did I did for U,

rejecting other vowels,

ignoring all consonants.

And yet, when I needed U

more than forever,

there was no U to be found.

Only I and X and W

and outcast letters

from a foreign alphabet.

Together we made

our own language

that none could understand,

and it was you

and it was different

and we forgot it

the more we spoke,

sobering to

the horror

of mere communication.

Joseph Farley

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