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    Permanent Ink on Temporary Pages
    Permanent Ink on Temporary Pages
    Permanent Ink on Temporary Pages
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    Permanent Ink on Temporary Pages

    By David J. Lovato

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    Each of the 16 poems in Permanent Ink on Temporary Pages stands alone, but also serves as a piece of a larger narrative. From the death of poetry itself in “At Rest in the Sea” to the lifetime-spanning “The Back of the Room”, the stream-of-consciousness piece “Alone” to the song-turned-poem “Sunday Calls for Cloudy Skies”, and the thematically-related interludes “Letters”, “Pages”, and “Poetries”, Permanent Ink on Temporary Pages tells the story of a narrator struggling to find his place in the world, drifting between tangential universes, and replacing the people around him with fictional characters, all the while writing letters he doesn’t send, poetry scattered to the wind, and pages full of everything he can’t bear the thought of losing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid J. Lovato
    Release dateJun 24, 2014
    ISBN9781311357229
    Permanent Ink on Temporary Pages
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    David J. Lovato

    I live in Kansas City, where I spend most of my time reading, writing, or reading and writing.

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      Permanent Ink on Temporary Pages - David J. Lovato

      Permanent Ink on Temporary Pages

      David J. Lovato

      Copyright © 2014 David J. Lovato

      All rights reserved.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook should not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy, or at least consider giving the book an honest rating/review. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      The Ones Who Follow the Water

      In the Year of Our Death

      Contents:

      At Rest in the Sea

      Letters

      Faded.

      Sunday Calls for Cloudy Skies

      Alone

      Shadows and Fingerprints

      The Back of the Room

      Yearbook

      Pages

      Be There

      In the House Across the Street

      On the Mend

      I Could Have Shined

      Love on a Page

      Contronym

      Poetries

      Afterword

      About the Author

      At Rest in the Sea

      Edgar Allan Poe once said,

      The death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical topic in the world.

      Could he have predicted it would be done to death?

      That people would write it and write it until it lost all meaning?

      I like to believe that he sleeps in the sea

      In something like peace with his Annabel Lee

      Because if he rose from his sepulchre, emerged from the waves

      I’m not sure he’d like what he sees.

      And of course I’m not innocent,

      I write the same thing over and over again

      I just write it a different way every time

      And hope no one notices or at least doesn’t mind.

      It isn’t a death in the literal sense,

      More like a forking of roads, a departure, an end

      Because everyone I see and everyone I meet

      Eventually walks away from me

      By writing them down, in some way they stay

      But all I am left with are words on a page.

      I’d

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