So many names in a book I see.
Clever, but dead.
Arresting in their looks,
in 19th century photographs.

Living forever in caskets
of moldy wood
and on pages
of yellowed paper.

Acidic,
the truth burns me.
Immortally deadened in my tracks
with a graveyard for a soul.

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