M is for Martyn

The pages of my
address book
are printed

on pages that contain
a tiny vaccuum
in which there’s another world

the smallest of
pricks
from the pen’s nib
would pierce the shell
and this universe would
implode

and
that’s why
for safety
my book contains
no names

Amended 15 May 2005
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