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Softly-Cushioned Chair

August 29, 2023
By jcuffaro SILVER, York, Pennsylvania
jcuffaro SILVER, York, Pennsylvania
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Grimacing laughs are a soft cushion for

 the weight of our conversation.

In the middle of a sentence;

this conversation has a heavy burden

on comforted lies.

Silence neared and elevated me;

from the softly-cushioned chair.

Into the foyer

with me.

And in the middle of that sentence 

the conversation ended with 

the heavy burden on comforted lies, 

where silence elevated me;

grimacing laughs are a soft cushion for

 the weight of our conversation.


Grimacing laughs lifted our spirits;

the heavy silence

lifted the softly cushioned chair.

Into the foyer 

with me.

Comforted lies weigh down on

my heavy burden;

In the middle of a sentence 

we don’t bother picking up

the weight of our conversation.


The author's comments:

This piece is based solely on the overwhelming anxiety of what one might believe to be a conversation about them but is, however, not about them at all. I tried stringing together the feelings one might feel in that experience by deliberately making the sentences seem cut short and vague.


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