{"sf1_id":1227277,"sf2_id":"P1EVZvwe","title":"Unimportant Verse 1","author":"makyo","words":184,"posted_at":"2017-08-16T05:01:00.000Z","tags":["Experimental","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1227277-unimportant-verse-1","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/P1EVZvwe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/40/69/40691874-2c32-4bf0-b160-25b098c46a74","description":"#1 of Unimportant Verse About Important People","content":"I see your past in cross-processed film,  \nin blown-out colors and over-saturation.  \n  \n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; You told me all about it, told me grand stories:  \n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; you were going to go back in time and save the world.  \n  \nI see your past in yellows and browns,  \nin umber and sienna and amber, in a younger sun.  \n  \n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; You sat and told me how -- and you were always sitting --  \n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; you thought past-you dreamt of a future less complicated than today.  \n  \nI see your past through film-grain and vignette,  \nwith a thick white border, space on the bottom to write.  \n  \n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; You told me how you learned so many imperfect things,  \n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; in so many less than ideal ways, always at inopportune times.  \n  \nI see your past in architectural drawings of unrealized buildings,  \nin paperback covers reaching towards heaven, in trillions of words.  \n  \n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; You figured past you dreamt of, not perfection,  \n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; but a world unconstrained by so many failures.  \n  \nI see your past with no me in it,  \nand wonder if past-you dreamt of us.  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Unimportant Verse About Important People","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1227287-unimportant-verse-6.json"}}