Your Fade-out is a Tiny Philosophy But No Less True for That

your only
teachers

are the movies
and lovers

and lovers
are like movies

only old ones
stir desire
Chad Bennett, "Your Fade-out is a Tiny Philosophy But No Less True for That" from Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era. Copyright © 2020 by Chad Bennett. Reprinted by permission of Sarabande Books, Inc..
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