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ISSUE NO. 26
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Poetry

Senses

By

Glen

Glen writes from a prison in WA.

Alexander Grey via Unsplash

Do you see what I see

I can’t see what you see

If you could see what I see

And I could see what you see

What would we see

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Do you know what I’m thinking

I don’t know what your thinking

If I knew what you were thinking

And you knew what I was thinking

What would we think

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Do you know what’s important to me

I don’t know what’s important to you

If I understood what’s important to you

And you understood what’s important to me

Would it still be important

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Do you know how I’m feeling

I don’t know how your feeling

If I knew how you were feeling

And you knew how I was feeling

How now would we be feeling

Would that be important to us

What would we think

Would we now see?

This
piece
was originally printed in the
September 2026
edition of About Time.
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