Rust

There are reasons

Some manikins have heads

Some manikins do not

They chop them off

Just to focus on the clothes

Manikins are dead

Age is a slow decay

Age is what we are

Age is nature

Age is alive

Age is never dead

How, age is everything!

How the earth is such an antique!

Age is only memory

That we never seem to see

With a pivoting perspective

Backward binoculars

Age is only worth to you

What you exist to be

Age is but a slow decay

Manikins do not experience

They just mime away the day

To pivot through perspective

With no head

No interest that is common

As a common cold

As common as age

Your age is only yours

No one will ever understand

How age

Make your joints rust

Cheats your common sense

Makes you slowly decay

Author's Notes/Comments: 

this poem is a blunt climax to the book's message, of life being a slow decay of all the fresh innocence of life, and so on and so forth, and how everyones perception is different, because of our age, and a perpetual change of perspective, every moment

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