A/N: Written for day three of NaPo WriMo. Unedited. Talks about exploring worlds beyond these walls humans have built around themselves. 'Cause whether glass or paper or hardboard, all walls must come crashing down.
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	 She lived in a house where the walls were made of cardboard

	 and the drains were corrugated.

	 The roof was of tarot-cards in half-moon prints

	 stacked like ladders to the sky. 

	 And it took but a jolt, the slightest of movements;

	 an overblown gust of wind to

	 ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~

	 ~blow ~~ them ~~~ down~~~~

	 ~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~

	 like dominoes. So all she could see

	 was the clarity of the crepe paper sky.

	 And she reached out to catch the light;

	 it entwined with her fingers like elegant fly-paper.

	 Her eyes burnt holes in the noon.

	 

	 So much azure, intermingled

	 with the vermilion-est of reds. 

	 Never had she seen the way the sky frayed 

	 where it met the ground; a dewy hem

	 of pale grey parchment.

	 

	 She lived in a house where the walls were made of cardboard 

	 and the windows were not made of glass. 

	 The shutters were A-4 sized; smaller than she realized. 

	 So when she lit a match, the embers singed through in

	 UnEvEn PaTtErNs

	 like lions that trawled through the night

	 and tore at them.

	 

	 So many stars in the darkness.

	 Flickering. Winkering and blinkering at her.

	 When she laughed, they laughed

	 and she could hear the sound echo through

	 the depths of space where angels sang to the moonlight.

	 When the stars drove back home, she cried out to them

	 to come and tell her their stories again.

	 They let her go silently; they traipsed through the night,

	 And they watched from overhead as

	 the cardboard

	 came 

	 tum-

	       buh-

	              ling

	  down.

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