<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530644" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Modern Vertigo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Standing uncentered<br>At a canted angle-<br>Slanted in my frame of mind.<br>I can see a clear destination ahead.<br>All that empty, white space-<br>A long shot extended to the edges, <br>The scenery bleeding out before my eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm boxed-in by all the possibilities.<br>Opportunity, sprawling and vast, <br>Compresses me in depressive formats, <br>Feeling out of focus-<br>A disjunctive cut blurring in and out-<br>As my reticle zooms<br>In choppy shots.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sleek, stark status quo<br>Keeps me claustrophobic<br>As time and expectation come ever closer.<br>Almost simultaneously, <br>They move far from me, <br>Distant while I stand on the conveyor belt<br>That rolls me toward them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm dizzy and nauseous, <br>More upset than my stomach<br>In the dysfunctional, disrupted inertia<br>Of my stationary position.<br>I'm light-headed, <br>But my thoughts are heavier and darker<br>As the floor tugs and jerks under my feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My speech slurs, <br>Slushing laterally<br>To the side, unbalanced, <br>Tipping, toppling over itself.<br>My vision, splitting, <br>Spins in a helix shape<br>Accelerating around the sharp turns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I need to readjust myself.<br>This recurrent unsteadiness<br>Slingshots the world<br>In my saccadic lens.<br>In this modern vertigo, <br>I get my close-up<br>As I fall away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tim+Stensloff">Tim Stensloff</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530644" data-title="Modern Vertigo de Tim Stensloff" data-description="Standing uncentered At a canted angle- Slanted in my frame of mind. I can see a clear destination ahead. All that empty, white space- A long shot extended to the edges, The scenery bleeding out before my eyes. I'm boxed-in by all the possibiliti..."></div> </div> </div>

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