Rebounding

Rebounding

The Line Breaks and Lives By Breaking

A Revision

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Michael Klein
Jun 24, 2025
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A poem is more broken than anything—suffering
its presumptive unsayable, its imagery
& other laws that go into making magic

out of chaos. My friend Thomas, a record producer
dead now broke the silence by refusing to sign a contract
with this: “The problem is, I always hear music.

I’m hearing it now, talking to you,” as if to say
refusing was never the whole…

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